Mats Wilander quotes
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“When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'”
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“To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.”
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“Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.”
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“You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.
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“Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.”
Source : Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.
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“But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.”
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