John Newcombe

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 difficult. ↗

— John Newcombe

#couple #days #difficult #few #forties

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school. ↗

— John Newcombe

#i #school #stay #tennis #understand

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon. ↗

— John Newcombe

#had #i #love #love affair #started

I was a pretty feisty young kid. ↗

— John Newcombe

#i #kid #pretty #young #young kid

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 time. ↗

— John Newcombe

#against #court #draw #eight #eric

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. Because that's the way you get out of them. ↗

— John Newcombe

#bit #calm #frightened #get #got

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

— John Newcombe

#million #moustache #wrote

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity. ↗

— John Newcombe

#ate #basically #curtailed #eat #i

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 because I was so fit. ↗

— John Newcombe

#afternoon #back #because #drill #fit