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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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"I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure."
Pressure
"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."
Winning
"I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes."
Athletes
"But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things."
Pain
"Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch."
Fun
"For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court."
Sports
"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."
Woman
"Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players."
Sports
"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."
Coach
"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."
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"Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land."
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"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."
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"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
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"Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries."
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"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."
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"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."
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"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."
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"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
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"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you."
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"It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team."
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