John McEnroe Quotes
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I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.
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It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream.
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The sting of losing is bad.
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I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.
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We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
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This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.
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But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.
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Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
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I've never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible.
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I won't admit to having a poster of Borg on my bedroom door. But I certainly found him to be someone who got me way more into tennis.
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It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.
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I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.
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I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it.
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If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?
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There's always a concern when you play the week before a major. That's not the easiest time for a scheduler or a promoter, I would think.
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My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
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I would have thought that a woman would have become president before a black man.
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I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.
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When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.
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You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him.
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If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.
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I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.
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There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
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What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.