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" I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it. "
John McEnroe
Other
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" My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches. "
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" Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up. "
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" Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one. "
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" If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.' "
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" What I've realised is that you can run miles, jump on a bike, lift weights, and all that other garbage, but the bottom line is that you get in tennis shape by playing tennis. You build the right muscles, and I don't believe people can do it as successfully any other way. "
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" I am finicky about making sure my sneakers are pretty tight. It is almost like a superstition for me. "
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" You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him. "
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" I like to be close to water and the ocean, particularly. I love to get out and body surf. I like mountain biking, too. "
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" The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn't take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, 'Well, if they're offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.' "
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" It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed. "
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" Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act. "
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Act
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" The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.' "
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Good
You
Say
" Sometimes you get hungrier when you taste it. "
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Sometimes
Hungrier
Get
" I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis. "
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Think
See
" I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls. "
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Brick
Walls
Trying
" No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open? "
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Open
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" If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players. "
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Great
Look
You
" If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen. "
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Now
Talent
Play
" You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort. "
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Games
You
Top
" I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future. "
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Life
My Life
Thought
" I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me. "
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Someone
Me
" If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating. "
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Think
Than
" I'd never left America until I was 18. "
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" Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal. "
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" To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying. "
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Very
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Believe
" When I felt I was rejected by my first wife, and she said, 'Some day you will thank me for this,' you know what? I do. And so, sometimes it is darkest before the dawn. You can think it is bleak and you can't see. You never know. "
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You
Day
" I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser. "
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Too Much
Cry
" There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about. "
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