John McEnroe Quotes

I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf.

John McEnroe

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• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Music
  • Father
  • Day

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • School
  • Reason
  • Prison

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Way
  • Most

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Logical

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Black
  • Simple
  • Black-and-white

• Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Women
  • Me
  • Inspire

• I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Believe
  • Say
  • I Believe

• My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Baseball

• When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Environment

• I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Lost
  • Proud
  • Judge

• Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • People
  • Live
  • Today

• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Help
  • High
  • Energy

• A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Work
  • Period

• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Success
  • You
  • Success Is

• As a director, there's no natural career progression. So after 'The Wackness,' which was very personal to me, I was very, very picky about what I was going to do next, to the point where I think that I was almost too picky.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Career

• You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Golf

• You know that thing where you're trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you're trying to fit the word that's in your head in the puzzle, and then you go 'Ugh!' and you walk away, and then it comes to you. I'm interested in that moment. The release of expectation, and the release of pleasing yourself and pleasing anybody. Breaking the mindset.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Trying
  • Expectation
  • Mindset

• Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Up
  • God
  • Thinking

• I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Golf