You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.
-- Martina Navratilova
About the Quote
What's done is done and can't be undone. We can learn from the past and apply lessons to the present. Those lessons-- if applied correctly-- can lead to a better future.
A good part of the past is filled with mistakes, many of which we would like to correct with a do-over. Making mistakes isn't fun, but they help make us who we are and lead us to the moment in which we find ourselves. Had we not made those mistakes (as unpleasant as they may have been at the time), we may not have had the opportunities we're grateful we had.
While it's OK to recall the past and examine it periodically, the past is read-only for us: we can't rewrite it so it turns out differently. The best we can do is live in the present and keep moving forward to the future ahead of us.
Some Information about Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on 1956-October-18.
Martina Navratilova is a tennis commentator for the BBC as well as for the Tennis Channel. She is also an author and an activist in the gay rights movement.
However, she is probably best known as one of the greatest professional tennis players-- regardless of sex-- in the history of the sport. She dominated women's tennis during the late 1970s and through the 1980s.
From 1972 to 1975 she was ranked #1 in Czechoslovakia (present day Czech Republic and Slovakia). When she went tot he United States in 1975, she went into exile. For that, Czechoslovakia stripped her of her citizenzip. In 1981 she was granted United States citizenship, and in 2008 Czech Republic granted her Czech citizenship.
In 1975 she had placed high enough to be one of the Top 5 female tennis players on tour. She reached the Number One ranking in 1978 after winning the Virginia Slims championship and the women's singles championship at Wimbledon.
The Australian Open in January, the French Open in May, Wimbledon in June, and the U. S. Open in Spetember are known as Grand Slam tournaments. Beginning with the 1983 Wimbledon championship, Martina Navratilova won 6 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments in women's singles tennis.
After winning a tenis tournament in Filderstadt, West Germany, she became the 2nd person in modern tennis history to win 1,000 matches.
On winning her 158th professional title in Chicago, Illinois, US in 1992, she had won more championships then another other player regardless of sex. When she retired from singles competition in 1994, Martina Navratilova had won 167 titles in total.
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