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"But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that."
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"The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality."

"I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament."

"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."

"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."

"Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach."

"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."

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"For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court."

"But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally."

"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."

"Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality."

"But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game."

"Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players."

"Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer."

"I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs."

"Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him."
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