John McEnroe Quotes
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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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I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.
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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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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.
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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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I would put tiebreakers in the fifth set, no question about it.
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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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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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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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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.
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Sometimes you get hungrier when you taste it.
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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.
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I'm going to vote for Obama. I'm going for the change.
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The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'
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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.
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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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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 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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London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.
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I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
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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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I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.
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I thought doubles was a good way for me to practice and get some reps in - I didn't like to train in the gym as much as players these days.
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I used to get two racquets a year. As you can imagine, they didn't last me too long.