John Newcombe

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to…

— John Newcombe

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a…

— John Newcombe

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden…

— John Newcombe

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on…

— John Newcombe

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print…

— John Newcombe

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that…

— John Newcombe

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

— John Newcombe

You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went…

— John Newcombe

Your game is only as good as your second serve

— John Newcombe

Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to…

— John Newcombe

It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your…

— John Newcombe

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to…

— John Newcombe

People think this is all about the top players hitting tenins balls and they talk about technique and strategy and how important…

— John Newcombe

I was a pretty feisty young kid.

— John Newcombe

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

— John Newcombe

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

— John Newcombe

They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.

— John Newcombe

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

— John Newcombe

That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a…

— John Newcombe

There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had…

— John Newcombe