John McEnroe Quotes
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We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.
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If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.
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Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?
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The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.
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It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city.
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I'll let the racket do the talking.
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It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.
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You cannot be serious!
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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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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.
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As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.
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This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.
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He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent
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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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Bush is an idiot and he's President, so anything's possible
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Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.
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To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.
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I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.
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On a given day, Serena Williams could beat some players. I believe because she's so incredibly strong mentally that she could overcome some situations where players would choke 'cause she's been in it so many times, so many situations at Wimbledon, The U.S. Open, etc. But if she had to just play the circuit - the men's circuit - that would be an entirely different story.
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If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
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You can tell when someone has been on steroids A guy bulks up, has a new body and never gets tired...You see these guys or girls who come onto the tour talking about their new training programs and their diets where they eat this or that new thingbut they'll never tell you about the drugs they took.
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I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.
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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 have never seen someone point after point that just gives it everything.
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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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Serena Williams best female player ever - no question.
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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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Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.
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