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People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

— Martina Navratilova

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I advocate eating nutritious food (I'm a vegetarian), working out, being in top form mentally and physically.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

I've been asked who I would pay to watch to play tennis, and Roger would be one of the few.

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts", probably lost.

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