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Top 15 John Newcombe Quotes (2024 Update)

John Newcombe Quote: “So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.”

1. “So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “Your game is only as good as your second serve.”

2. “Your game is only as good as your second serve.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.”

3. “The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That’s the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don’t have it.”

4. “There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That’s the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don’t have it.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “I wouldn’t, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I’d learnt that when you’re in the serious situations, you’ve got to try to stay calm. Because that’s the way you get out of them.”

5. “I wouldn’t, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I’d learnt that when you’re in the serious situations, you’ve got to try to stay calm. Because that’s the way you get out of them.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.”

6. “They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I’m basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.”

7. “You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I’m basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “I was a pretty feisty young kid.”

8. “I was a pretty feisty young kid.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn’t write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I’d gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.”

9. “By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn’t write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I’d gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.”

10. “That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “I chose to stay with tennis and they didn’t understand that at the school.”

11. “I chose to stay with tennis and they didn’t understand that at the school.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “A few of us who are around the sixty mark don’t play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.”

12. “A few of us who are around the sixty mark don’t play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.”

13. “At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “I’d also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn’t sit very well with people.”

14. “I’d also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn’t sit very well with people.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.”

15. “I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.”

— John Newcombe

John Newcombe Quote: “I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.”

16. “I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.”

— John Newcombe

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