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I think the women's game is a bit different to the men's. They mature at a much younger age in the women's game.
- Tim Henman
#Age
#Game
#Mature
#Men
#Women
People ask me if I would like my children to play tennis, and I'm, like, 'Hmm. Maybe not.' And that's a bit strange.
- Tim Henman
#Children
#Me
#People
#Play
#Strange
The players should appreciate how lucky they are with the opportunities they've got, and they've got to get out there and maximise that. That's what success is about and unfortunately in British tennis there are too many people over the years who haven't maximised their potential.
- Tim Henman
#People
#Potential
#Success Is
#Success
You cannot play every week, and a couple of weeks away is vital. When you look at Federer's record and the number of Slams he has competed in, it highlights how he plans so far in advance.
- Tim Henman
#Far
#Look
#Plans
#Play
#Week
I had a shoulder problem during my career when I changed my service action and needed an operation.
- Tim Henman
#Action
#Career
#Had
#Service
#Shoulder
I was part of the David Lloyd Academy and when I was 16-17 years old I got to practise with Stefan Edberg and that really helped me.
- Tim Henman
#Academy
#Got
#Me
#Old
#Really
I've realised I've hit enough tennis balls to last me a lifetime.
- Tim Henman
#Balls
#Enough
#Last
#Me
#Tennis
The players that always used to frighten me were the big servers so someone like John Isner if he gets on a roll with his serve, can be a nightmare to play against.
- Tim Henman
#Always
#Big
#Me
#Play
#Players
Wimbledon is quite simply the ultimate championship, and I'd be the first to admit it was the one I wanted to win. A lot has to do with the history and the tradition: the grass courts, the royal box, the grand spectacle of it all.
- Tim Henman
#Grass
#History
#Royal
#Tradition
#Win
If success is measured in maximising your potential and giving 100 per cent to what you do, enjoying it and making a good living then I'm very happy with what I've achieved. If other people wanted more than that from me, what could I do?
- Tim Henman
#Good
#Me
#People
#Potential
#Success
The Olympics had never really been on my agenda. I had been a huge sports fan growing up, But it never really occurred to me that I would have a chance to participate.
- Tim Henman
#Chance
#Growing Up
#Me
#Never
#Sports
It's a fact of life that there will always be people who try to cut corners.
- Tim Henman
#Always
#Life
#People
#Try
#Will
It's always fun catching up with the other players because so many of them were really good mates when I was playing on the main tour. The thing you miss when you give up is that camaraderie that you experienced because, for 35 weeks of the year, it really is a travelling circus.
- Tim Henman
#Always
#Camaraderie
#Circus
#Fun
#Good
I love the Dunhill Links and I absolutely love playing golf in Scotland.
- Tim Henman
#Golf
#I Love
#Links
#Love
#Scotland
People will be surprised to learn that I've got a sense of humour.
- Tim Henman
#Learn
#People
#Sense
#Surprised
#Will
I never envisaged how much I'd enjoy just being at home, with the kids, playing loads of golf.
- Tim Henman
#Enjoy
#Golf
#Home
#Just
#Never
My life on the tour was very structured.
- Tim Henman
#Life
#My Life
#Structured
#Tour
#Very
I was always single-minded, never thinking about what was being said or written about me.
- Tim Henman
#Always
#Me
#Never
#Said
#Thinking
People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.
- Tim Henman
#Age
#Best
#Losing
#Sports
#Time
Players need to look at their own tours, which are run separately from the slams, and ask why they haven't improved the funds on offer.
- Tim Henman
#Look
#Need
#Own
#Players
#Why
I think in terms of how my game developed on clay that was amazing.
- Tim Henman
#Amazing
#Clay
#Game
#How
#Think
I had eight consecutive years in the top 20 and five of those were in the top 10. That's something I'm very proud of. And the way that I played some of my matches at Wimbledon was also very special.
- Tim Henman
#Proud
#Something
#Special
#Top
#Way
There are no grey areas with commitment, you're either in or you are out; 95 per cent doesn't work. I didn't have that much talent as a kid, but I worked at it, all hours known to man.
- Tim Henman
#Commitment
#Grey
#Man
#Talent
#Work
I'm a private person. I don't want to write a book because I know the story and feel no need to tell it to anyone else.
- Tim Henman
#Feel
#Know
#Need
#Person
#Story
The side of me you see when I'm having a laugh is not the one most conducive to playing my best tennis.
- Tim Henman
#Best
#Laugh
#Me
#See
#Tennis
From the age of 6 to 33, I was utterly driven and single-minded.
- Tim Henman
#Age
#Driven
#Single-Minded
#Utterly
Returning serve on clay is not easy because you don't always have a sure footing so you can't push off in the way that you would like.
- Tim Henman
#Always
#Clay
#Easy
#Push
#Way
Movement on clay is totally different to every other surface and you have to have that balance and understanding of how to slide.
- Tim Henman
#Balance
#Clay
#Movement
#Understanding
I still remember playing my first Challenger tournament in Hong Kong in 1990, and the prize fund was $50,000.
- Tim Henman
#First
#Fund
#Prize
#Remember
#Tournament
A professional notices any small change to their racket, whether it's something a bit different to the grip, the strings or the frame.
- Tim Henman
#Change
#Frame
#Professional
#Something
A professional's racket is such a personal thing, and it's the tool of your trade.
- Tim Henman
#Personal
#Professional
#Trade
#Your
I can't slow the degeneration in my back.
- Tim Henman
#Back
#Degeneration
#Slow
I've worked hard ever since I was that 18-year-old kid who travelled to South America and India to play small tournaments in the hope of cracking the top 200.
- Tim Henman
#America
#Hard
#Hope
#Play
#Top
I know I'm not the best tennis player there's ever been, but calling me a loser is just ignorance.
- Tim Henman
#Best
#Ignorance
#Know
#Loser
#Me
A lot of British players had more potential than me. But they slipped away.
- Tim Henman
#British
#Me
#More
#Players
#Potential
I felt very fortunate that I was able to retire in the circumstances that I did.
- Tim Henman
#Circumstances
#Did
#Felt
#Fortunate
The ATP is a difficult structure, it is 50% players, 50% tournaments. And so if you are the chairperson of that organization, it's very difficult to please everyone.
- Tim Henman
#Difficult
#Organization
#Please Everyone
For 15 years, I very rarely read anything about myself.
- Tim Henman
#About
#Anything
#Myself
#Rarely
#Years
I really do appreciate how lucky I am.
- Tim Henman
#Appreciate
#How
#I Am
#Lucky
#Really
No question, when you're talking about Grand Slams, they're the pinnacle of the game, and that's what I want to be winning.
- Tim Henman
#Game
#Question
#Talking
#Want
#Winning
Quarter-finals is good at a Grand Slam, but I think we want to go farther.
- Tim Henman
#Go
#Good
#I Think
#Think
#Want
My children can really understand the Olympic Games, To have a medal is very, very special.
- Tim Henman
#Children
#Medal
#Special
#Understand
Playing the tennis circuit, I travelled so much for so long, that being at home is now one of my favourite things.
- Tim Henman
#Home
#Long
#Now
#Tennis
#Things
The players need to take responsibility for themselves.
- Tim Henman
#Need
#Players
#Responsibility
#Take
There are too many British players who just aren't good enough. And that's not through lack of effort. But in terms of getting to the top 100, and getting into Wimbledon on their ranking, I feel as though there are too many players who just aren't good enough.
- Tim Henman
#Effort
#Enough
#Feel
#Good
#Through
Players have a very short window of opportunity and they're just interested in what they can earn.
- Tim Henman
#Opportunity
#Players
#Short
#Window
There's another 44 weeks of the season out there, and tennis needs to be less reliant on the slams.
- Tim Henman
#Another
#Less
#Needs
#Out
#Tennis
India needs better singles players to progress as a tennis nation. They need to develop, be physically fitter and stronger.
- Tim Henman
#Better
#Nation
#Need
#Progress
#Stronger
If people's opinion, whether they liked you or not, made you a better player then we'd all be out there on the charm offensive.
- Tim Henman
#Better
#Charm
#Opinion
#Out
#People
I'm not really a guy who looks back or has regrets. In my house there's only one photograph of me from my playing days.
- Tim Henman
#Back
#Days
#House
#Me
#Who
The pressure I did feel before matches was self-inflicted. I didn't go out on court there thinking about what was being said in the papers and on TV about me.
- Tim Henman
#Feel
#Go
#Me
#Pressure
#Thinking
For a few years after I stopped playing people would ask me how I was coping with retirement and there would often be a slightly worried tone to their voice. But I always answered the question the same way: that if I knew retirement was going to be this good I would have quit a long time ago.
- Tim Henman
#Good
#Long Time
#Long
#Me
#Time
Being a professional player, you just want to control what happens on court and let the other stuff take care of itself.
- Tim Henman
#Care
#Control
#Professional
#Take Care
Unless we get children playing tennis, we'll lose the talented ones with good athletic ability and hand-eye coordination to football and other sports.
- Tim Henman
#Children
#Football
#Good
#Lose
#Sports
Tennis has always been my hobby and I love to play but it's also not a bad way to earn your living and it might help if children knew that.
- Tim Henman
#Bad
#Children
#Help
#Love
#Way
It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.
- Tim Henman
#Access
#City
#Important
#Kids
#Tennis
Tennis is not always that accessible but I sometimes think badminton is harder - tennis you can always play against the wall but badminton is tough to even play outdoors with the wind.
- Tim Henman
#Badminton
#Play
#Sometimes
#Tough
#Wind
I was in the football, rugby, cricket and hockey teams at school; bit of squash. Tennis obviously.
- Tim Henman
#Cricket
#Football
#Rugby
#School
#Tennis
People sometimes come up to me and call me Tiger Tim. Why am I called that? I don't know, it starts with T and I don't know. It has stuck.
- Tim Henman
#Me
#People
#Sometimes
#Tiger
#Why
You don't give someone a first serve, if there is a bad linecall you take it, because you are going to get bad linecalls.
- Tim Henman
#Bad
#Because
#First
#Serve
#Someone
During rallies, it's always crucial to make Nadal cover the whole width of the court. He likes to camp out in his backhand corner, spearing that big off-forehand diagonally across the court. So the backhand down the line is a vital shot, because it moves Nadal out of his most favoured position.
- Tim Henman
#Always
#Big
#Down
#Position
#Shot
From when I was about the age of 16 to 33, I was away about 30 weeks a year.
- Tim Henman
#About
#Age
#Away
#Weeks
#Year
At Wimbledon there is a golf putting machine to play on in the locker room.
- Tim Henman
#Golf
#Locker Room
#Machine
#Play
#Room
The on-site catering facilities at Wimbledon are absolutely fantastic. Whatever your dietary requirements are, you can find what you need.
- Tim Henman
#Fantastic
#Find
#Need
#Whatever
#Your
If I could have played my whole career on one court it would have been the Centre Court at Wimbledon.
- Tim Henman
#Career
#Could
#Court
#If I Could
#Would
You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.
- Tim Henman
#Control
#Good
#Job
#Noise
#Performance
Andy Murray is very special.
- Tim Henman
#Andy
#Special
#Very
When I played, I maximised my potential.
- Tim Henman
#Played
#Potential
Changing nappies is easy.
- Tim Henman
#Changing
#Easy
When I think about how badly I wanted to be a player, and how obsessed I was with the game, I think that, for a long time in British tennis, that's been a big question mark with the kids, how much they want it.
- Tim Henman
#Big
#Game
#Long Time
#Long
#Time
I love red meat.
- Tim Henman
#I Love
#Love
#Meat
#Red Meat
#Red
Sunday lunch is always pretty social.
- Tim Henman
#Always
#Lunch
#Pretty
#Social
#Sunday
Yes, there are times where I might play one bad service game a set. If you look at Sampras, he might play one slightly suspect service game every three sets. So to beat someone like that you've obviously got to be right on top of your game. I've basically got to get rid of that in my game so it makes me very difficult to beat.
- Tim Henman
#Bad
#Game
#Look
#Me
#Service
If there has been any match-fixing then we need to make sure that it's erased from our sport because it's a crime in sports. We have no place for it in any sport let alone tennis.
- Tim Henman
#Alone
#Need
#Place
#Sports
#Tennis
When you see players coming into the new season with injuries and already carrying strapping on various parts of their bodies in January, then it only serves to highlight how hard the sport is and how demanding the schedule can be. There really isn't an off-season and that's the nature of the beast.
- Tim Henman
#Beast
#Injuries
#Nature
#New
#Schedule
When I was playing, I kept my calorie intake up with protein shakes and chicken, fish and steak. Now there's no real diet, but I pay attention to what I eat.
- Tim Henman
#Chicken
#Diet
#Fish
#Protein
#Real
I've always been a very good sleeper. I can sleep any time, anywhere and never lost sleep before a big match.
- Tim Henman
#Good
#I Can
#Lost
#Sleep
#Time
When I was 28, my wisdom teeth were coming through and I had all four out under general anaesthetic. I remember friends who'd had terrible experiences, but my teeth were removed at 8am and I ate steak and chips for lunch that day.
- Tim Henman
#Coming
#Day
#Lunch
#Remember
#Wisdom
We need to educate the younger players because match-fixing has no place in sport.
- Tim Henman
#Because
#Need
#Place
#Players
#Younger
I think you've got to really keep attacking on grass, it's the hardest surface to defend on.
- Tim Henman
#Grass
#Hardest
#Keep
#Surface
#Think
I believe I'm the best volleyer in the world.
- Tim Henman
#Believe
#Best
#I Believe
#World
I feel at times I get blamed for the weather at Wimbledon.
- Tim Henman
#Feel
#Get
#I Feel
#Times
#Weather
A lot of clay court players want rhythm. They want the time to play from the baseline, and it's about preventing them from having that.
- Tim Henman
#Clay
#Play
#Rhythm
#Time
#Want
I was always passionate about what I was doing, and loved the game.
- Tim Henman
#About
#Always
#Doing
#Game
#Loved
If you'd asked me when I was 18 if I'd be happy being in the top 100 male players for 10 years, I'd have taken that like a shot. As it turned out I was top five for a decade.
- Tim Henman
#Be Happy
#Decade
#Happy
#Me
#Shot
I wasn't really allowed to ski during my career because it was too risky in terms of potential injuries.
- Tim Henman
#Because
#Career
#Injuries
#Potential
I've never been interested in the whole fame game; the headlines when I was disqualified in 1995 for hitting a ball girl were more than enough to make me want to keep my head under the radar.
- Tim Henman
#Ball
#Enough
#Fame
#Game
#Me
Volleying comes into grass-court tennis because it's a surface that favours the player who gets on the front foot. So if you've got an opportunity to come in and be aggressive, then finishing the points at the net is always going to be a good strategy.
- Tim Henman
#Aggressive
#Good
#Opportunity
#Strategy
Tennis was my hobby which became my career but it never felt like a job.
- Tim Henman
#Career
#Hobby
#Job
#Never
#Tennis
Dealing with the press it was pretty obvious there was a right answer and there was an honest answer. I think quite a lot of the time I gave the right answer. That was my defence mechanism.
- Tim Henman
#Answer
#Defence
#Pretty
#Right
#Time
When playing, I had acupuncture.
- Tim Henman
#Acupuncture
#Had
#Playing
I heard there was a bit of talk that there might be a second 'Wedding Crashers' film. It would certainly get my support.
- Tim Henman
#Film
#Get
#Support
#Talk
#Wedding
#Would
My wife and I went on a safari break in Singita, South Africa, for our honeymoon and then we went back for our 10th anniversary, which was amazing.
- Tim Henman
#Africa
#Amazing
#Anniversary
#Back
#Wife
Everyone deals with pressure in different ways.
- Tim Henman
#Deals
#Different
#Everyone
#Pressure
Clay is so challenging as a surface because you want to be playing aggressively but the margins are so small and it's easy to get the balance wrong and start making errors. Getting your movement right and preparing correctly to hit your shots is key.
- Tim Henman
#Balance
#Clay
#Easy
#Movement
#Start
My wife has horses and we've got dogs and cats, so our family loves animals.
- Tim Henman
#Animals
#Cats
#Family
#Got
#Wife
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