“I'm getting closer…”
Beginning his Wimbledon Runner-up acceptance speech http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/9385686/Wimbledon-2012-Tearful-Andy-Murray-loses-on-court-but-wins-the-nations-heart.html. (8 July 2012)
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