John Newcombe Quotes

I was a pretty feisty young kid.

They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

Your game is only as good as your second serve

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.

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.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

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.

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.

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.