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John Newcombe

"I was a pretty feisty young kid."

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Amber Hurdle

"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me."

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Amber Hurdle

"Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention."

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Amber Hurdle

"I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player."

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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

"I like to think I can keep a pretty level head."

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Amber Hurdle

"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."

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Amber Hurdle

"The size of my head though is pretty abnormal."

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Amber Hurdle

"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."

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

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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."

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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 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."

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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
"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
"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
"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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