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THEY SAID IT
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum
August 15, 1983
?John McEnroe, when asked whether he wanted guards to evict a woman who yelled an obscenity at him during an exhibition match against Guillermo Vilas in Miami: "That's O.K. She just gave me a line for the U.S. Open."
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August 15, 1983

They Said It

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? John McEnroe, when asked whether he wanted guards to evict a woman who yelled an obscenity at him during an exhibition match against Guillermo Vilas in Miami: "That's O.K. She just gave me a line for the U.S. Open."

? Roy Smalley, Yankee infielder, on the needling he receives from teammates over his designer wardrobe: "They get on me, but they all dress like Walt Garrison and think Giorgio Armani plays for the Cosmos."

?Samantha Smith, the 11-year-old girl who visited the Soviet Union at the invitation of President Yuri Andropov, explaining to Johnny Carson why her friends in Manchester, Maine had missed an earlier appearance of hers on The Tonight Show: "I got bumped by a Boston Red Sox game."

? Alberto Salazar, revealing his secret training regimen for coping with possible smog during the marathon at the L.A. Olympics: "I'll start the car in the garage and run in there."

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