John McEnroe Quotes

I'll let the racket do the talking.

John McEnroe

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• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Music
  • Future
  • Amazing

• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • I Can
  • Retire
  • Pedal

• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Help
  • Actors
  • Director

• If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Security
  • Cost

• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Personality

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Really
  • Comfortable

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.

• When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • You
  • Best
  • Easier

• The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Something
  • Convince
  • Novels

• In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Brain

• Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Best
  • Chance
  • Homicide

• I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Film
  • Balance
  • Beauty

• There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • You
  • Yourself

• My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Control
  • Dog

• The new book is a pictorial book, which stays very much focused on the beginnings of Fleetwood Mac -- 1967 thought the next eight years -- and it's very much regarding what drove us as young musicians, which was blues, it's really a journey that chronicles all of those early years that are mostly unknown in America.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Book
  • America
  • Journey

• I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Good
  • Real
  • Power

• I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.

  

  Caroline B. Cooney
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Reading

• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  

  Bill Shankly
  • Game

• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  

  John McEnroe