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John Newcombe

"By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit."

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"By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit."

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Amber Hurdle

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

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Amber Hurdle

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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Amber Hurdle

"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

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Amber Hurdle

"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

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Amber Hurdle

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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John Newcombe
"You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity."

Living

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John Newcombe
"By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit."

Time

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John Newcombe
"I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school."

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John Newcombe
"You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit."

School

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John Newcombe
"A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult."

Sports

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John Newcombe
"That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon."

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John Newcombe
"I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time."

Time

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John Newcombe
"I had started my love affair with Wimbledon."

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John Newcombe
"I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them."

Life

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John Newcombe
"I was a pretty feisty young kid."

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