Martina Boone Quotes

“Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people.”

“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.”

“But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.”

“We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.”

“But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.”

“Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.”

“I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.”

“I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this bloody system that ruined so many people's lives for no reason whatsoever.”

“I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.”

“My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to be feminine, which did not come easy to me. My body was what it was, and I worked it to be a better tennis player.”