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- "Many people say to me that is was easier for a player to win the Grand Slam in my day. I always reply, 'Well,
if that is so, why couldn't someone else do it?'"
- - Don Budge, winner of the first Grand Slam of tennis in 1938
- "Tennis is not about how you play when you are behind, tennis is about how you play when you
are even." - Peter Flemming
- "Anyone can hit tennis; it is much more difficult to play tennis; therefore, you can only get better by pushing
yourself, playing better players than yourself and playing through fatigue." - Roy Beskin
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- "Let's put it this way. I'd rather get some attention than no attention. If it is bad, that's life."
- John McEnroe
"Everybody is fighting for food. The way I like to live cost money, and the guy on the other side is trying
to take my money." - Jimmy Connors
"The backhand is like a bad date-- you don't want to go through with it, but since you have to, the sooner
it's over the better." - Bill Cosby
"Of all the evocative names in sports... I do not believe that any has more significance or rings the bells
of memory more loudly and clearly than Wimbledon." - Herbert Warren Wind
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