Jo Durie famous quotes
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It was all right until the sun came out and then everything started getting warmer.
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It's just nice to see people enthusiastic about their tennis and want to learn and improve - for me that's the most important thing - I still love my tennis.
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I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great; I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.
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The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.
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If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.
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The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.
-- Jo Durie
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[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.
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I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
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But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.
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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
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To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
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Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.
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How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
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A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
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