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Following his victory, Murray leapfrogged double Official Cardinals Jerseyszyhaa915 Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah in the betting for the most competitive BBC Sports Personality Award of all time, though he remains behind another who bucked history this summer – Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins. Murray said : "A lot of my friends have been messaging me about it and I don't really know what to say. I think it should take more than one or two good tournaments to deserve something like that. It would probably be a bit rash."
That gold medals at four consecutiveAuthentic Cardinals Jersey Olympic Games only makes you a 150/1 shot, as in the case of sailor Ben Ainslie, says something about the depth of the field.The Scot hailed the inspirational effect of Britain's magical sporting summer: "Being around the Olympics and seeing how the nation came together, from the public to the athletes to the press, everyone was just right behind it."I saw some of the pictures of the parade and it's just amazing to see how pumped everyone was. It's been amazing to be part of it," he said.
"Sport has been this huge part of my life since IKevin Kolb Jerseys was a kid and it's been the best summer of sport in my lifetime and I'm sure in most people's. It's been so much fun and I'm just happy I was able to contribute towards it."Despite his at times breathtaking tennis, gritty tenacity and plenty of evidence he has managed to buck the modern trend and retain a semblance of a personality beneath layers of media training, Murray has had to work hard for the affection of the middle England crowds that throng SW19 every June.
That all changed this year. His tears following a fourLarry Fitzgerald Jerseys set defeat to Roger Federer in this year's Wimbledon final were followed by his warmly acclaimed success on the same court at the Olympics.Murray's earnings are now likely to skyrocket, according to marketing experts, and head towards the levels of a Federer or a Tiger Woods. With further grand slam success, he could triple his current annual income of ￡8m a year.
But his advisers at Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment, theMichael Floyd Jerseys company set up by the Spice Girls guru that also manages David Beckham and Lewis Hamilton, are unlikely to want to smooth the rough edges that they believe have endeared him to a generation of younger tennis fans.Nor is he likely to want to sacrifice the balance he has struck between his low-key private life with girlfriend Kim Sears and the demands of sponsors. His commitment to the latter, however, was illustrated when some of his first words on sealing a famous victory were.