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Sue Barker Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never dreamed when I was competing at The Championships that I would one day be interviewing the winners on Centre Court for the BBC.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still get goose-bumps when I walk into the All England Lawn Tennis Club at the start of tournament and that will never change.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd grown up with Wimbledon, and so to play on Centre Court really was a dream come true.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Billie-Jean King used to take me out on court and say that she just wanted to watch my forehand. You can't get greater praise than that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd earned enough money, I had a flat in Wimbledon, I did some corporate things, but I was really unhappy. After being challenged all my life, suddenly there were no challenges any more.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1980 I was attacked by a dog in Spain and was temporarily blinded in one eye - I thought it would end my tennis career.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I was terrified of dogs, but now I get so much pleasure from them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't worry me how I'm remembered.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to do it on your own terms - not to be forced out because your body breaks down. I had to quit because of injury and I was crying for weeks. I used to wake up in the morning and think 'what am I getting up for now?'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I still wish every day that I could play tennis again. It's such an incredible, wonderful job to have.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get very emotional when British players are playing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't have wanted to be in any other era. Chrissie Evert, Martina Navratilova, Virginia Wade, Evonne Goolagong and Margaret Court were fabulous people, and I made great friends along the way.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mary Peters. When I was having my sulky, stroppy, bad loser phase I watched her at the Olympics. Sometimes she failed but always with a smile and good grace. She taught me how to win and lose, and I have a photo taken with her in my lounge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was playing, all my overseas trips were paid for by the LTA, then by my coach, and from whatever prize-money I made I would have to pay back as much as I could of the fare. Only once that was paid could I keep the extra, and that was a powerful incentive.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work on 'A Question of Sport' which comes out of Manchester and you see how it's important to take parts of the BBC to other parts of the nation.
- Loves
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone loves sport. And everyone loves a quiz.
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