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"My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled."
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"I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United."
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"I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best."
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"My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before."
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"We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games."
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"I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club."
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"I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing."
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"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."
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"Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here."
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"I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova."
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"It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set."
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"I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal."
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"But I was very much into sports when I was a child."
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"When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds."
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"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents."
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"I think that every single person should play sports."
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"I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult."
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"Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way."
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"As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore."
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"I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really."
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"I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English."
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"Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be."
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"It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
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"They have very good individual players, but they need the collective game. And they still do not have it although there are now only six months left to go."
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"I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine."
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"You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top."
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"I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon."
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"Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it."
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"Yes, yes, I'm very happy that I finally got through this match, beat No. 7 in the world. It's my best win so far. So I'm really happy the way I play today and felt really strong on the court physically, mentally."
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"I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that."
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"You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first."
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"For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court."
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"Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better."
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"Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan."
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"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."
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"There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works."
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"How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts."
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"Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night."
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"For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man."
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"I want to be involved in soccer some way."
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"My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years."
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"You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying."
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"What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later."
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"The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class."
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"But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen."
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"Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around."
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"Nearly 30,000 fans turned out to support the tribute match and provide one of the best atmospheres at the ground for ages. I was so happy to be part of it."
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"Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against."
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"No, I think the pitching today has more depth."
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