Time & Perspective Quote by Gabriela Sabatini

There’s a quietly radical honesty in Sabatini’s line: the “good time” isn’t a victory lap, it’s a negotiated peace treaty with her own calendar. Coming from an elite athlete, it lands as an antidote to the familiar myth that greatness is just talent plus grit. She’s pointing to the unglamorous third ingredient: administration. The sentence is almost comically plain, which is exactly why it stings. No heroic metaphors, no tortured-artist suffering. Just time, and the way it gets quietly confiscated.

The subtext is about control. “My things” can mean money, sponsorships, travel, training logistics, media obligations, family, even emotional bandwidth. For a star in a global sport, especially in the pre-social-media era when fame still required constant in-person maintenance, life becomes a second job stacked onto the first. Sabatini isn’t complaining so much as naming the hidden labor of celebrity and professionalism: the work of keeping your work possible.

It also reframes leisure as something you manage rather than something you fall into. “I’m having a good time” reads like a defensive clarification, as if she’s aware that admitting to being busy invites pity, and she refuses it. The line’s charm is its contradiction: joy and burden coexisting in the same breath. That’s the athlete’s adult reality - not just playing the match, but running the enterprise that the match created.