Wimbledon Quotes - Page 3

• It means everything, definitely. I mean, it's Wimbledon. Tennis here is tennis history. Centre Court is always great to play on. I really feel like I'm at home. I was really up and down after my title here in 2011, but I still worked hard and believed in myself, and my team believed in me as well.

  Petra Kvitova

  Team, Mean, Home

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• AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.

  Stan Collymore

  Football, Flames, League

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

  John Newcombe

  Cake, Tennis, Candle

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Mean, Winning

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• Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Memorable, Wells, Outlandish

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