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I was a pretty feisty young kid.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Kids
Feisty
Young
Young Kid
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I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Affair
Love Affair
Wimbledon
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Your game is only as good as your second serve
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Games
Tennis
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They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Millions
Moustache
Insured
Million
Wrote
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At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Cake
Tennis
Wimbledon
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I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
School
Tennis
Chose
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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.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Stupid
Stupidity
Wells
Anyway
Ate
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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 well with people.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Player
School
Team
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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 difficult.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Couple
Guy
Mark
Play
Sixty
Forties
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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 time.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Court
Eight
Eric
Opening
Sweden
World
Draw
Main
Match
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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 because I was so fit.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Afternoon
Friday
Left
School
Squad
Years
Sergeant
Drill
School Back Know
Major
Regular
Um
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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 and mind, then simply refuse it entry.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Attitude
Sports
Mind
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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 to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Calm
Frightened
Littles
Stay Calm
Trying
Life My Life Way
Learnt
Situations
Throughout
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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 the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Balls
Cheating
Tennis
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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 had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Positive
Fire
Form
Negative
Realised
Used
Way
Inside
Positive Me Negative
Had
Gradually
Positive Way
Turned
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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 out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Caught
Dumb
Millions
Millions And Millions
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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. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Centre
Court
Electricity
Evening
First Time
Great Year
House
Late
Taste
Wimbledon
Years
Time Experience Great
Match
Packed
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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 only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.
John Newcombe / Tennis Player
Feet
Gone
Little Bit
Months
Numb
Print
Problem
Realised
Tongue
Writing
Bit
Write
By The Time
Certainly
Foot
Hospital
Lasted
Luckily
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There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it.
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Kids
Blood
Over You
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People think this is all about the top players hitting tenins balls and they talk about technique and strategy and how important that is. But they don't understand the essence of competition. This is one-on-one, two players out there fighting each other with everything they have, trying to bring the best out of themselves. And the difference at this level of the game is all in the head and in the heart.
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Fighting
Heart
Player
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