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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.
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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.
John McEnroe
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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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When I felt I was rejected by my first wife, and she said, 'Some day you will thank me for this,' you know what? I do. And so, sometimes it is darkest before the dawn. You can think it is bleak and you can't see. You never know.
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I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.
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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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When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there.
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I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.
John McEnroe
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Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
John McEnroe -
I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.
John McEnroe -
My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
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No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?
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As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.
John McEnroe -
You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him.
John McEnroe
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I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.
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I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
John McEnroe -
Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.
John McEnroe -
Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing.
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There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.
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I would have thought that a woman would have become president before a black man.
John McEnroe
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Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?
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I would put tiebreakers in the fifth set, no question about it.
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Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
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I like to be close to water and the ocean, particularly. I love to get out and body surf. I like mountain biking, too.
John McEnroe