John McEnroe Quotes
If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.
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It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.
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Ronaldo used to be my neighbour, and he passed my house every day. We always greeted each other.
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The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
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If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my God, now I'm screwed.' Or you're not going to think, 'The umpire's going to give him calls because he's just told him he's an idiot or the pits of the world.'
