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Forty years ago, the players were like a travelling circus - we went everywhere together and were pretty good friends.
- Rod Laver
#Circus
#Friends
#Good
#Players
#Together
We were pretty darn good - fit and ready to play - but today's level is different. Those ground strokes are ever so much faster, coming back at you at a pretty good speed. Footwork-wise, you've got to be ready to hit that next shot. It's a tough time.
- Rod Laver
#Back
#Good
#Time
#Today
#Tough
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
#Know
#She
#Tennis
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
#Heavy
#Little
#Look
#Share
#Time
When you've got your man down, rub him out.
- Rod Laver
#Down
#Got
#Man
#Out
#Your
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
#American
#Funny
#Game
#Hell
#Support
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
#Bad
#Face
#Good
#Me
#Work
Each match is a huge effort from a physical point of view. You can only hit so many balls before your elbow or some part of your body is going to say, 'Hey, don't do that to me.'
- Rod Laver
#Body
#Effort
#Me
#Point Of View
#View
When you have the opportunity, you strike.
- Rod Laver
#Opportunity
#Strike
#You
I saw Kyrgios down in Australia. He played some very good tennis, won two or three matches, and has done the same here at Wimbledon. I think Australia's got a good prospect in Kyrgios.
- Rod Laver
#Australia
#Done
#Down
#Good
#Three
It can be a daunting prospect for any player to know that his opponent will never, ever quit.
- Rod Laver
#Know
#Never
#Opponent
#Quit
#Will
The next point - that's all you must think about.
- Rod Laver
#About
#Must
#Next
#Point
#Think
There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.
- Rod Laver
#Being
#Go
#Good
#Ingredients
#Tennis
The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up.
- Rod Laver
#Ahead
#Game
#Never
#Time
#Up
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
#Looking
#People
#Sympathy
#Tried
#Want
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