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"Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it."
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"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."

"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"

"Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar."

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

"Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered."

"The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it."
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"People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?"

"Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament."

"I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business."

"You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there."

"I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day."
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