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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them."

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Amber Hurdle

"The game itself is bigger than the winning."

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Amber Hurdle

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

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Amber Hurdle

"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."

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Amber Hurdle

"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."

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Amber Hurdle

"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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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."

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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
"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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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."

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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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