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The more publicity the better.
Sue Barker / Television Presenter
Publicity
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It doesn't worry me how I'm remembered.
Sue Barker / Television Presenter
Remembered
Worry
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Everyone loves sport. And everyone loves a quiz.
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Quiz
Everyone
Sport
Loves
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I get very emotional when British players are playing.
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British
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... and later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.
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Men
Action
Pairs
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But you are always remembered for how many Slams you win, not weeks at No. 1.
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Remembered
Weeks
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When I became a presenter, Bob Wilson was the only other ex-sportsman doing it.
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Wilson
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For a long time I was terrified of dogs, but now I get so much pleasure from them.
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Long Time
Pleasure
Terrified
Time Long Long Time
Dogs
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I'd grown up with Wimbledon, and so to play on Centre Court really was a dream come true.
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Centre
Court
Wimbledon
Grown
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I suppose it must be true that if you have a bad practice, you'll probably have a good match!
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Practice
Good Bad True
Be True
Suppose
Match
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It was another nervous Tim Henman match - I'm not sure how he manages to get through them, let alone us!
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Manage
Nervous
Not Sure
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For me, I still wish every day that I could play tennis again. It's such an incredible, wonderful job to have.
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Tennis
Me Day Every Day
Wonderful Job
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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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Blinded
Eye
Spain
Tennis
Attacked
Career
Temporarily
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Wimbledon is a special place for me in so many ways and I feel privileged to have been such a big part of it over the years.
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Privileged
Wimbledon
Big Part
Me Feel Place
Special Place
Such A Big Part
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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.
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Lawn
Tournament
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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.
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Microphone
Nose
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The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.
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Majority
Tennis
Tennis Player
Older
Realise
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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.
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Centre
Competing
Bbc
Day Never One Day
Championships
Dreamed
Day One Day Never
Interviewing
Winners
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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.
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Praise
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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.
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Manchester
Bbc
Work Important See
Nation
Sport
Parts
Question
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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.
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Corporate
Unhappy
Wimbledon
Life Money Enough
All My Life
Challenged
Earned
Enough Money
Suddenly
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Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.
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Battle
Mind
Tennis
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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.
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Court
Fabulous
Virginia
Wade
Great People Way
Great Friends
Margaret
Martina
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Sports Personality of the Year' is such an iconic sort of programme, I remember when I was playing tennis, wherever I was in the world I would want to be back in Britain for 'Sports Personality of the Year.'
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Iconic
Remember When
Programme
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How fitting [it would be if Roger Federer played the first match under the roof] ... he has become known in recent years as the King of Wimbledon ... and this is the day after of the death of the King of Pop.
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Kings
Would Be
Years
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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?'
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Wake Up
Your Body
Breaks
Weeks
Crying
Forced
Quit
Terms
Wake
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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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Smile
Grace
Mary
Olympics
Taken
Taught
Good Always Me
Smile Good Always
Watched
Smile Good Me
Photo
Failed
Lose
Lounge
Phase
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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.
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Paid
Powerful
Coach
Extra
Fare
Incentive
Overseas
Trips
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It has been an honour to present BBC 'Sports Personality Of The Year' for the last 19 years and I have loved every minute of it. The BBC have asked me to stay but I had made the decision to downsize my commitments a while ago, and I knew that the time would be right after what was always set to be a magical 2012.
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Honour
Bbc
Commitments
Magical
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