19 Quotes by Tim Phillips

What happens is that some of the locals will get into the fever because all the motorcycles are here. Some of the people out of town trade up.

He was an amazing person. And like the ship, he has been completely forgotten.

There is no desire on our part to say anything derogatory against the leading women players - they are fantastic athletes who add a huge amount to Wimbledon. We could respond to the pressures and do something that would be fundamentally unfair to the men, but we have not.

I thought the ship was the coolest thing ever. Once I saw it, all these memories began to bubble up.

Whereas we're 87 percent. So it seems to me we are much closer to equal prize money than they are on the rest of the tour.

We like to think our prize money is driven by market data and fairness. The situation is that the women play much shorter matches.

We could respond to the pressures and do something that would be fundamentally unfair to the men, but we have not.

The top 10 ladies last year earned more from Wimbledon than the top 10 men did.

People who go shopping on Columbus Boulevard look at the ship and wonder, 'What's that piece of junk?' I want them to know that it was as big as the Statue of Liberty. I want them to know what an American icon it was.