I hated school.
— Evonne Goolagong Cawley
I had to stay in school before I started travelling overseas.
I know that from my own experience, after I had my daughter Kelly, I felt great. I just wanted to get back on that court.
I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water.
I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.
I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.
I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.
When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'
If you didn't have power, you had to have touch and serve and volley, which I found very exciting and that's why I love watching Federer play, because of those skills.
About three months after I had Kelly, I went and played in Canada. I felt great, I was ready to go and I was very energetic. But as soon as I started playing, I thought 'no, too soon.' I went back home and slept for two days.
I remember I hadn't bought anything for my Mum for Christmas and I actually won an iron, so I was excited that I could take that home for her.
Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match.
Whenever a car would come down the road, my mum would tell us to hide 'or else the welfare man would take you away.'
I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.
I had a bit of a reputation as a tomboy.
What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.
I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.
Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.
I was just feeling really down and didn't want to play tennis anymore and when I was feeling down like that, what helped me is that I went back to my culture. To walk the Earth.
I even opened a nightclub called Evonne's.
Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.
Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.
When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.
Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.
The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.
We couldn't afford anything. Suitcase, clothes, everything, Barellan people bought for me.
I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.
I went to Willoughby Girls High, I finished my high school certificate and then I did shorthand and typing the next year. Then started travelling and never used it since.
When you say sorry it creates a better working relationship.
I have won a few trophies in my time but I have never had a major event name their trophy after me.
When I was playing on the tour, I never really thought about the Hall of Fame because you're always thinking about your game and how you can do better.
Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.
My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.
After I was fortunate enough to achieve my dreams on the court, I have done my best to, in turn, help young people achieve theirs.
Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.
It's wonderful being a mother playing anyway.
There is no higher honour in sport than being selected to represent your country and I have certainly taken great pride in always giving my best in my position as Fed Cup captain.
Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.
When I started I was pretty well the only Aboriginal player who was playing tournaments.
I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.
