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13 quotes by John Newcombe

John David Newcombe, AO, OBE (born 23 May 1944 in Sydney) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player who won seven Grand Slam singles titles, and an all-time record 17 doubles titles. He was one of many Australian players to dominate the field during the 1960s and 1970s, and is one of the few men to have been ranked world No. 1 in both singles and doubles.
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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 I gradually realised that I... →

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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... →

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I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

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

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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, which lasted luckily... →

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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... →

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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 the sergeant major... →

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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 the whole match.... →

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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 eight in the world at the... →

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

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I was a pretty feisty young kid.

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

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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 guys in their forties it is very... →

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