John Newcombe Quotes

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

I am really proud to HAVE been an Arsenal player.

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.

I knew I was the second-best tennis player in the state of Florida and No. 8 in the United States of America when I was 12 years old and I couldn't tell you what I was in baseball, but I liked my chances in tennis of getting a scholarship to college.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school, it just didn't exist there.

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

I am blessed with a reasonable athletic talent and was an athlete in school.

When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the Under-16 or the Under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side.

I've been fortunate enough to play at all the age groups but I'm not eligible for them anymore.

A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame.

I have played for Rizvi since childhood. I have led Rizvi myself for six years, and we continuously won the Harris Shield and Giles Shield.

I think, in general, not only in Formula One but just in a lot of sports, when younger people come in and they do well, there's always a bit of talk going on. I think that's pretty normal.

I am very happy to be playing for Dortmund.

That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.

What we get paid to do is peak at the world championships and Olympics.