John McEnroe Quotes

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

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• I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Happy
  • Take
  • Consequences

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Dreams

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Hidden
  • Sword

• Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Great
  • Health
  • Value

• I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Best
  • Monster
  • Mess

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Children
  • American
  • Parents

• When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • God
  • Man
  • Strong

• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

  Quintilian
  • Evil
  • Broken
  • Habits

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Book

• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

  Manika
  • Life
  • Music
  • Imagine

• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  

  Iris Chang
  • You
  • Yourself
  • First

• How different men were to women!

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Women
  • Different Men

• (on his firing from Two and a Half Men) I would have fired my ass too. Well, maybe not like they did.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Men

• What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Children
  • Age
  • Moments

• When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Song
  • Emotional

• Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • Food
  • Quality

• Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

  

  John McEnroe
  • People
  • Success
  • Hate