Top 38 Newcombe Quotes
#1. Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
Samantha Stosur
#2. As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'
Cheech Marin
#3. As long as I could pitch a little, no one cared that I was getting drunk.
Don Newcombe
#4. You could say that the Hell's Angels have a bad reputation, then you talk to a biker, and he's trying to join it. It just depends upon who you're talking to about reputation.
Anton Newcombe
#5. I have a treasured set of matched grain crosscut horns made for me by master American carver Jim Cooke, cut yin-yang from the same block of briar he waited five years to find.
Rick Newcombe
#6. That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.
John Newcombe
#8. One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
Hugh Howey
#9. I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people.
John Newcombe
#10. I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. Flying Lotus is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash.
Anton Newcombe
#11. At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.
John Newcombe
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. To become more effective, you must learn what these people have learned: how you feel is not controlled by others or events. You are not the physical or psychological slave of your parents, husband, wife, child, boss, the economy, or anything else unless you choose to be.
William Glasser
#15. I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.
Don Newcombe
#16. A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
B.C. Forbes
#17. 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
#19. By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.
John Newcombe
#20. Since critics found it hard to defeat him on intellectual grounds, they stooped to personal attacks.
Ron Chernow
#21. Your game is only as good as your second serve
John Newcombe
#22. The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.
John Newcombe
#23. They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.
John Newcombe
#24. We are drawn to what we lack. No one loves daylight more than a blind man.
Victor Hugo
#25. You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.
John Newcombe
#26. But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
"You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
Haruki Murakami
#27. So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.
John Newcombe
#28. Why don't you tell me why you called me?
Don't you know?
I'm a therapist, nto a psychic.
That would make your job easier, no?
Scarier.
Alex Adams
#29. Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.
Robert Adams
#30. There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it.
John Newcombe
#31. The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.
Anton Newcombe
#32. 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
#33. You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.
Anton Newcombe
#34. Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.
John Newcombe
#35. It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting
John Newcombe
#36. A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
Alan Watts
#37. I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.
John Newcombe
#38. I could have rolled the ball up there against Musial, and he would have pulled out a golf club and hit it out.
Don Newcombe
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