“You can find out anything you want about a person by putting him on Centre Court”
John Newcombe
“If you say anything during a tennis match, they make it seem like you committed murder or something”
John McEnroe
“I never realized what it all meant. Nothing, and I mean nothing, compares with winning Wimbledon”
Andre Agassi
“Until I win, or die”
Ivan Lendl, when asked how long he would keep trying to win Wimbledon
“You can come over to London as No. 1 in the world, but nobody thinks that you’re anybody until you’ve won Wimbledon. They act like they’ve got the biggest tournament in the world. And they’re right, they do. This is the one”
Pete Sampras
“The easiest way to become member here is to win the championship”
Anonymous, on the All-England Tennis Club
“I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass”
Ivan Lendl
“I love the Centre Court. I wish I could hug it sometimes”
Billie Jean King
“I’d pay all the prize money back to win Wimbledon”
Andy Murray
“I went in on his forehand and he passed me; I went in on his backhand and he passed me; I stayed back and he passed me even though I was at the baseline”
Andy Roddick, after losing to Roger Federer in the 2005 Wimbledon final
“New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up”
Jimmy Connors
“If I never win another match I don’t care. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I’m going to always be a Wimbledon champion”
Goran Ivanisevic
“When the crowd is chanting ‘Roger’ I hear ‘Novak’. It sounds silly, but it is like that”
Novak Djokovic
Beatrice Di Loreto
