John Newcombe Quotes

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• By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time,…
• The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body…
• I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very…
• I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about…
• I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.
• I was a pretty feisty young kid.
• I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.
• They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.
• You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked…
• A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of…
• That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for…
• 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 try to stay…
• You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.
• At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.
• Your game is only as good as your second serve
• It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear…
• So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And…
• 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 get caught out…

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