John McEnroe Quotes
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.
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When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.
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I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.
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I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.
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Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
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Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
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I spent a whole year when I was injured just trying to get my arm back to the point where I could hit a tennis ball for more than 30 minutes a day. I'd hit for 15 minutes and it would feel as if my arm was going to fall off.
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I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it.
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I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
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I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.
