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The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an artist, when you're in there by yourself, trying to do something great, and people who don't even know you can come up and just dump on you.
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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.
John McEnroe
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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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I am someone who gets pretty worked up.
John McEnroe -
It's only human nature to want to know what you can do on your own or with someone else.
John McEnroe -
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.
John McEnroe -
I've never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible.
John McEnroe -
Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself.
John McEnroe
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I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.
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Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.
John McEnroe -
I used to get two racquets a year. As you can imagine, they didn't last me too long.
John McEnroe -
There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
John McEnroe -
I'm going to vote for Obama. I'm going for the change.
John McEnroe -
The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'
John McEnroe
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I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.
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You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.
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Sometimes you get hungrier when you taste it.
John McEnroe -
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
John McEnroe -
Of course for your main rivals, you're going to get extra motivated for it, particularly if you haven't played him for a long time.
John McEnroe -
You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears.
John McEnroe
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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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One of the things I respected about Connors was that one second he would be spewing a four-letter word, the next second he would do something that had people falling off the aisles. Yet he never seemed to lose his concentration.
John McEnroe -
With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use on the court. It's fun, and I don't take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I'm not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I'd rather let the match play out a bit first.
John McEnroe -
Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act.
John McEnroe