John McEnroe Quotes
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I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.
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Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
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My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
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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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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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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 think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.
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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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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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Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.
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I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.
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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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I would have thought that a woman would have become president before a black man.
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I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.
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I've never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible.
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I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.
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If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.
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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 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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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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There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
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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 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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I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.