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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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"Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar."
"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."
"The day they put me in the net I had a good game. I've stayed there since."
"I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve."
"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."
"To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying."
"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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"It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed."
"I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety."
"We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game."
"Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal."
"I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid."
"I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that."
"If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1."
"If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen."
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