Wimbledon Quotes - Page 3

People think I am unemotional because my voice is flat and a bit boring. It is unfortunate but it is just the way it is. I've tried to change it but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The truth is, I have lots of emotions inside. I cried after the semi-final at Wimbledon [2012] because I was proud to reach the final and I knew how much it meant to the country. I cried after the [losing] final [to Federer], too, for different reasons. I felt I had let people down. I think people warmed to that. They could see how much it hurt.

Andy Murray

Country, Hurt, Thinking

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It is another Justine Henin who will try and go out there and achieve her dream of finally winning Wimbledon.

Justine Henin

Dream, Winning, Trying

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I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.

Kenny Cunningham

Years, Seven, Lows

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The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

Ralph Nader

Ncaa, Presidential, Finals

Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

A. J. Jacobs

Play, Bad Mood, Like You

Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2007.

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I'm an outside chance at Roland Garros but my focus is really on Wimbledon where it is realistically between me and Roger Federer to win.

Lleyton Hewitt

Winning, Focus, Roger

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Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.

Tiger Woods

People, Events, Super Bowl

"Q&A: Tiger Woods on Gaming, the Masters and PGA Tour ’12". Interview with Kyle Stack, www.wired.com. March 17, 2011.

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I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

Andy Roddick

Thinking, Who I Am, Style

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I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.

Andy Roddick

Team, Opportunity, Play

"U.S. Open: Andy Roddick takes center stage Friday". News conference, content.usatoday.com. August 31, 2012.

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My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

Goran Ivanisevic

Inspirational, Basketball, Hero

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If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

John McEnroe

Player, Tennis, Wish

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At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

John Newcombe

Cake, Tennis, Candle

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The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.

Peter Bodo

Running, Jeans, Blue

Peter Bodo (1995). “The Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in a Harsh New World of Professional Tennis”, Scribner Book Company

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Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him...Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.

Mike Ingham

Soccer, Football, Manchester United

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I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

Tracy Austin

Titles

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But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest

Richard Krajicek

Six

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Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995

Richard Krajicek

Winning, Play, Looks

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I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

Rod Laver

Marijuana, Tennis, Surprise

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You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

Mats Wilander

Winning, Player, Tennis

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Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Steffi Graf

Grass, Surface, Tournaments

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I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

John Newcombe

Affair, Love Affair

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A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Clive James

Player, Tennis, Way

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Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and they make such a big deal out of it. If they treat us this way, well, we have to treat them the same. We want to be respected, the way we respect Wimbledon, even if it is not the best Grand Slam on earth.

Marat Safin

Player, Cost, Earth

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Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Wall, Sleep, Tennis

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How fitting [it would be if Roger Federer played the first match under the roof] ... he has become known in recent years as the King of Wimbledon ... and this is the day after of the death of the King of Pop.

Sue Barker

Kings, Years, Would Be

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