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John Newcombe

"I was a pretty feisty young kid."

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Amber Hurdle

"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."

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Amber Hurdle

"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."

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Amber Hurdle

"Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed."

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Amber Hurdle

"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby."

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Amber Hurdle

"Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then you're pretty lucky."

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Amber Hurdle

"All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm."

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Amber Hurdle

"I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."

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Amber Hurdle

"It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us."

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Amber Hurdle

"As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place."

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

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John Newcombe
"Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb."

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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."

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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
"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
"So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way."

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

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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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