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Stan Smith Biography

Stanley Roger Smith (born December 14, 1946 in Pasadena, California) is a former world No. 1 American tennis player and two-time Grand Slam singles champion who also, with his partner Bob Lutz, formed one of the most successful doubles teams of all time. Together, they won many major titles all over the world. In 1970, Smith won the first year end championship Masters Grand Prix title. Smith's two major singles titles were the 1971 US Open (over Jan Kodeš in the final), and 1972 Wimbledon (over Ilie Năstase in the final). In 1972, he was the year-ending world No. 1 singles player. In 1973, he won his second and last year end championship title at the Dallas WCT Finals. In addition, he won four Grand Prix Championship Series titles. His name is also used in a popular brand of tennis shoes. In his early years he improved his tennis game through lessons from Pancho Segura, the Pasadena Tennis Patrons, and the sponsorship of the Southern California Tennis Association headed by Perry T. Jones.

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Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.

Feelings, Ovaries, Son

In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.

Number, Numbers, Paper, Real, Three, White

Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.

Check, Drawing, Make, Negatives Make, Play, Role

Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!

Country, Hey, Safe, Trying

Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

Caves, Drew, Gestures, Make, Men

Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

Darks, Exaggerated, Eye, Half, Light, Study

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

Description, Idea, Ideas, Line, Lines, Observed

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Confidence, Experience, Soccer, Sports, Tells

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

Road, Softball, Sports, Success, Winning, Worthwhile

Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

Gay, Laughter, Like, Pox, Small

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

Drawing, Finish, Finishing, Should, Worked

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

Kids, Media, White, God, Christmas

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

Life, Player, Shoe, Taken, Think, Thinking

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Court, Focus, Goal, Mind, Tennis, Walk