John McEnroe Quotes
I'm 56 years old. I like to get out on the court. I continue to try to play the best I can. Obviously, I'm nowhere near where I was when half this age. But I can still hit a pretty decent ball.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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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 have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
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I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.
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I'm 56 years old. I like to get out on the court. I continue to try to play the best I can. Obviously, I'm nowhere near where I was when half this age. But I can still hit a pretty decent ball.
