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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.' "
John McEnroe
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" I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player. "
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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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" I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. "
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" Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself. "
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" 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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" I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren't used to that kind of behavior, so later, they tightened the rules. "
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" There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV. "
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" I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that. "
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Tennis
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" I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus. "
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" I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls. "
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Walls
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" Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played. "
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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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" Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one. "
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" Roland Garros is the only one of the four majors that is 15 days, and that is too long. "
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" I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety. "
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" I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay. "
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" 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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" Of course for your main rivals, you're going to get extra motivated for it, particularly if you haven't played him for a long time. "
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" When I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while - when I woke up, I was seeing stars! "
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" You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears. "
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" I'm 56 years old. I like to get out on the court. I continue to try to play the best I can. Obviously, I'm nowhere near where I was when half this age. But I can still hit a pretty decent ball. "
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" I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary. "
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