John McEnroe Quotes

There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.

John McEnroe

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• If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Myself

• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
  • You
  • Vision
  • Model

• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Blood

• I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Kids
  • Anxiety
  • Pressure

• You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Real
  • Player

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • World
  • Born
  • Profit

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Change
  • Successful
  • Process

• When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Business
  • Change
  • Day

• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• 'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Dark
  • Serious

• My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Father
  • Knowledge
  • Care

• I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

  

  Jef Raskin

• I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

  

  Jessica Clark
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Interesting

• I've used pseudonyms for various reasons. In my earliest days I was writing too much, and needed to shift some of the product over to other front men. I've also done it to establish the different tones of the different writings: Stark doesn't write very much like Westlake at all.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Men
  • Different
  • Writing

• There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.

  

  John McEnroe