John McEnroe Quotes
There was a line call that didn't look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school.
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Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
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My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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When she was reading she wasn’t the quiet Sullivan twin, she wasn’t the one no one ever noticed. She became a princess in a castle. Or a clown juggling under the circus big top. She explored jungles on elephants’ backs and took trips to Mars on spaceships. Reading took her anywhere she wanted to go. And Sophie found that she wanted to go absolutely everywhere.
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There was a line call that didn't look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row.
