” Billie-Jean King used to take me out on court and say that she just wanted to watch my forehand. You can’t get greater praise than that. “
” But you are always remembered for how many Slams you win, not weeks at No. 1. “
” The majority of people don’t even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before. “
” You want to do it on your own terms – not to be forced out because your body breaks down. I had to quit because of injury and I was crying for weeks. I used to wake up in the morning and think ‘what am I getting up for now?’ “
” I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you’ve lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose. “
” I work on ‘A Question of Sport’ which comes out of Manchester and you see how it’s important to take parts of the BBC to other parts of the nation. “
” I suppose it must be true that if you have a bad practice, you’ll probably have a good match! “
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