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Tennis - GBS to Evonne Goolagong

 

Anyone for tennis.

Line from a typical British drawing room comedy set any time between 1920 and 1960. Most probably a misquote 'Anybody on for a game of tennis.' George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance , 1914

 

This is unbelievable. I usually show up Monday, lose Tuesday and go home Wednesday.

Vijay Amritraj, on reaching Stockholm doubles final with Ille Nastase

 

To me life in big-time tennis means carrying large amounts of small change in different currencies to work laundromats wherever I happen to be. I spend more time at nights watching my smalls go round than I do watching television.

Sue Barker

 

I didn't start a war. Nobody died.

Boris Becker, putting his shock 1987 Wimbledon loss to unheralded Australian Peter Doohan into perspective.

 

There was another touching moment in the girls under-14 singles when Miss Ferrari retired at 6-2, 1-0 in the final because she was so upset at her dog eating her gerbil that morning.

Bedfordshire Times

 

Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

Pat Cash

 

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

Jimmy Connors

 

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clear it up.

Jimmy Connors.

 

I don’t know that my behaviour has improved all that much with age. They just found someone worse.

Jimmy Connors.

 

For two weeks I’ve been seeing the ball like a basketball. Today I couldn’t find it.

Jimmy Connors, after losing 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 to John McEnroe at Wimbledon.

 

He’s got the balls and when he’s holding them he controls the tempo.

Jimmy Connors on his defeat by Curren

 

Even the men over 40 could beat us. My brother still beats me, and he isn't ranked. Martina would lose to the top 1000 men.

Chris Evert-Lloyd

 

I’d bet my house she couldn’t beat the 100th ranked male player. And two houses she couldn’t beat Harold Solomon.

Vitas Gerulaitis on Martina Navratilova

 

Tall trees by still water.

Evonne Goolagong - surname translated