After being asked if he had ever played in New Jersey- I must have. I remember the bar across the street.
Rod Laver |
After losing to Ivan Lendl in under an hour- Sure, on a given day I could beat him. But it would have to be a day he had food poisoning.
Mel Purcell |
Andre Agassi was recently born again. Now, if he can only grow up.
Sports Illustrated (1989) |
Bjoring Borg ... a Volvo among tennis stars.
Peter Freedman Glad to be Grey (1985) |
Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.
Clive James |
Charlie Pasarell moves so slowly between points, that at times he seems to be flirting with reverse gear.
Rex Bellamy The Times |
Everyone thinks my name is Jerry Laitis and they call me Mr Laitis. What can you do when you have a name that sounds like a disease?
Vitas Gerulaitis (1977) |
I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.
Michael Chang (1994) |
If Borg's parents hadn't liked the name, he might never have been Bjorn.
Marty Indik |
Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.
Tony Kornheiser Washington Post |
Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.
Goran Ivanisevic (1992) |
Jim Courier - that pneumatic Charlie Brown.
Allison Pearson Independent on Sunday (1994) |
Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.
Clive James |
Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
Clive James The Observer |
On Canadian Greg Rusedski becoming British number one - I get a kick out of watching him pick up the accent. He's using words such as 'brilliant' and 'lovely'.
Andre Agassi (19951 |
When I was 40 my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo L Black |
