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"My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled."
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"I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United."
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"I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing."
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"I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club."
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"It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set."
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"Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally."
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"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents."
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"I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine."
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"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll."
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"When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds."
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"Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here."
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"I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal."
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"We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games."
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"It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts."
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"I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English."
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"Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
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"I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really."
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"Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it."
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"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."
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"I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon."
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"I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova."
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"I think that every single person should play sports."
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"You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top."
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"I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult."
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"Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be."
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"My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before."
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"As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore."
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"But I was very much into sports when I was a child."
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"Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed."
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"If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day."
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"I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best."
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"If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings."
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"They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go."
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"Every day is a great day for hockey."
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"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa."
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"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
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"It ain't bragging if you can do it."
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"I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot."
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"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain."
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"The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom."
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"The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one."
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"Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those."
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"If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired."
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"Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher."
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"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
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"Nearly 30,000 fans turned out to support the tribute match and provide one of the best atmospheres at the ground for ages. I was so happy to be part of it."
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"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee."
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"So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion."
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"I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points."
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