John McEnroe Quotes

If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.

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• I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Ideas
  • Try
  • Handle

• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Competition

• Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Life
  • Childhood

• I don't like talking to celebrities.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Talking
  • Celebrities

• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Thinking
  • Confused
  • Fan

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Very
  • Complicated

• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Manager

• I have been the victim of heartless malice.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Been
  • Victim
  • Heartless

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Celebrity

• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Body

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Quality

• I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Home
  • Privacy

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• In normal times, at the beginning of each month, the federal government makes a cash advance to the Social Security Trust Fund called the 'normalized tax transfer,' in an amount equal to the estimated payroll taxes for the coming month.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Trust
  • Beginning

• Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Future

• L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

  

  Elizabeth Montagu
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.

  

  John McEnroe
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