Quotes John Newcombe

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that mu...

By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that...

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

I first went to Wimbledon in 1961 and have been every year s...

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon....

I tried out for the cricket team, then found out I had to pl...

I was a pretty feisty young kid....

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was ...

I was not able to play in 1972 because I was under contract ...

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I...

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player...

In the morning of course, I'd have to, John would have to go...

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it ...

That match was late evening and I had the experience of the ...

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

Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president ...

You have to be firm with your convictions. You can't mess ar...

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically ...

You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squa...