I hope people will enjoy watching us because we are definitely coming to Dubai to communicate our own enjoyment of being there. |
After great consideration and reasoning, I have decided that I will never sell my Wimbledon trophies and rackets and I have withdrawn them from sale. |
But clearly McEnroe convinced me. |
Even though the symbols of my victories are being sold, what I will always retain is the knowledge that for such a long period I was the supreme world tennis champion. |
However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me and now believe that the time is right for the trophies and rackets to pass either to a collector or a suitable institution where they can be appreciated by a wide number of people. |
I now realize how closely connected they are to my success as Wimbledon's winner in 1976-1980 and this revelation has caused me to reconsider my earlier intention to sell them. |
If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win. |
It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me. |
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. |
Obviously, it is not easy to part with the trophies that symbolize all the tremendous effort, both physically and emotionally, that it took to win Wimbledon on five occasions. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me. |
When John McEnroe called me several times and wondered what I was doing, I guess I woke up. |
Wrong. I am not poor at all. Business is going great and I have nothing to complain about. |
You have to find it. No one else can find it for you. |