Bjorn Borg Quotes

• I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets.

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• I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day.

   

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• When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

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• I’m amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

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• I enjoy fashion.

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• I just hated to lose.

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• Roger Federer is stylish.

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• Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

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• I’m an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

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• I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can’t exercise, I feel bad – I need to sweat and run to feel like I’m in good shape.

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• I wanted to win, even in practice.

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• You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

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• I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

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• It’s tough when you’re No. 1. You don’t have any private life, you can’t even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

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• You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

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• As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that’s not a happy thing – I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that’s the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It’s worth it.

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Bjorn Borg (16)

Birth:	6th June, 1956
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Tennis Player

About

Bjorn Borg was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. Between 1974 and 1981 he won 11 Grand Slam singles titles. He won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles and six French Open singles titles, a record he held until it was broken by Rafael Nadal. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Borg was the first player to earn more than one million dollars in prize money in a single season, in 1979.

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