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Rod Laver
Rod Laver
Australian Athlete
Born: Aug 9, 1938
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The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up. Rod Laver
Time You Game Never Most Vulnerable Up Your
Forty years ago, the players were like a travelling circus - we went everywhere together and were pretty good friends. Rod Laver
Good Together Good Friends Everywhere Circus Pretty Pretty Good Like Were Years Years Ago Friends Forty Forty Years Travelling Players
As a tennis player, you have a record, and that is what counts. I feel like I enjoyed myself, and I'm proud of what I accomplished. Rod Laver
Myself You Record Tennis Tennis Player Feel Like Counts Proud Accomplished Enjoyed Player
When you've got your man down, rub him out. Rod Laver
You Man Down Out Him Got Your Rub
I don't know much about Mauresmo apart from the fact she played great tennis. Is she a good technician? I don't know those parameters. Rod Laver
Good Great Those Parameters About Fact Tennis Know She Apart Much Technician Played
Yes, I hit with heavy top-spin, but when you look at the little rackets I played with, the Maxply Dunlop, you had to hit the very centre all the time. I had my share of miss-hits. Rod Laver
Time You Had Share Look Yes Very Hit Heavy Little Centre Played
I wasn't embarrassed that I'd had a stroke, but I just didn't want people to think I was milking it or looking for sympathy. It happened, and I dealt with it. Afterwards, I tried to do what I could for other people who had strokes, speaking at hospitals that treated stroke victims. Rod Laver
People Looking Think Other Sympathy Embarrassed Stroke Strokes Tried Could Hospitals Had Dealt Just Want Happened Afterwards Victims Speaking Who Treated
Camaraderie builds. We travelled together to Rome, Paris, Wimbledon, the U.S., lots of places. In a way, I miss it right now. My opponents were also my best friends. Rod Laver
Best Together Way Wimbledon Paris Miss Also Builds Opponents Camaraderie Were Lots Friends Rome Places Now Travelled Right
When Hoad and Rosewall were at their best, and I was a youngster, they had no qualms about saying, 'Hey kid, let's go and play.' That helped me to get up the ladder. Rod Laver
Saying Best Me Ladder Hey Kid About Had Qualms Go Were Up Get Youngster Helped Play
I'm usually pretty good in the garden. Rod Laver
Good Garden Pretty Pretty Good
I don't want to get blase about being recognised. It's pretty amazing. Rod Laver
Amazing Recognised Pretty About Get Being Want
Tennis was a big part of my life from as far back as I can remember. Rod Laver
Life Remember My Life Big Back Tennis Part Big Part Far
Right through school, I was a handy cricketer, a batsman and a left-arm spinner who bowled leg breaks. Rod Laver
School Through Leg Handy Breaks Who Right
It occurred to me that it would benefit me to play without emotion - well, without emotion others could see, anyway. Card players profited from having a poker face so opponents wouldn't know how good or bad their hand was, and I figured a deadpan expression would work in tennis, too. Rod Laver
Work Good Me Face Too Others Benefit Bad Would See Having Could Emotion Tennis Poker Know Well Without How Occurred Opponents Hand Anyway Figured Expression Play Card Players
Players who win on a clay surface are those who can control the ball, playing steadily and accurately from the back-court, keeping the ball in play and moving it around with changes of speed and spin, and resisting the temptation to over-hit. Rod Laver
Win Control Speed Changes Those Spin Steadily Temptation Clay Around Ball Surface Accurately Moving Who Play Keeping Players Playing Resisting
Funny thing about the volatile and biased French crowds. While they'd prefer to be cheering a countryman and giving his foreign opponent merry hell, if there was no Frenchman in the game, they'd always support a Continental player over an Englishman, an American, or an Australian. Rod Laver
Funny Game Giving Hell Funny Thing About Crowds Volatile Support Over Merry Biased French Cheering Frenchman Always Foreign Opponent Continental His Australian American While Prefer Englishman Thing Player

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