Occupation: Tennis Player Birth: May 23, 1944
There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of tou….
People think this is all about the top players hitting tenins balls and they talk about technique and strategy and how important that is. But they do….
It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball com….
So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I ha….
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 diffi….
I had started my love affair with Wimbledon..
They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million..
I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school..
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 ….
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..
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….
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, ….
That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. ….
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily onl….
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. Bec….
At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake..
I was a pretty feisty young kid..
Your game is only as good as your second serve.
You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity..