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"I proved that I can win the Grand Slams. I proved that I can last four and a half hours and come out on top against one of the strongest guys physically that tennis had probably seen especially on this surface. So they would probably be the things that I would say I have learned tonight: To not doubt myself physically and mentally from now on."
"I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch."
"I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me."
"Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger."
"There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them."
"He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you."
"Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on."
"I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets."
"I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do."
"He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone."
"Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess."
"Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again."
"Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen."
"John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli."
"John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building."
"It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks."
"Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis]."
"I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport."
"I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me."
"As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it."
