John McEnroe famous quotes

I have never seen someone point after point that just gives it everything.
-- John McEnroe

#Giving

I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.
-- John McEnroe

#Jobs #Guy #Thankless

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
-- John McEnroe

#Optimism #Important #Lessons

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.
-- John McEnroe

#Fun #Wall #Life Lesson

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
-- John McEnroe

#Self Confidence #Player #Thinking

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
-- John McEnroe

#Hate #Successful #People

I'll let the racket do the talking.
-- John McEnroe

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Talking

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

#Winning #Tennis #Champion

We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.
-- John McEnroe

#Tennis #Loser #Winner

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.
-- John McEnroe

#Wimbledon #Championship #Prestige

I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.
-- John McEnroe

#Brother #New York #Kids

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
-- John McEnroe

#Believe #I Believe #Autobiography

My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.
-- John McEnroe

#Weakness

You can tell when someone has been on ***** 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.
-- John McEnroe

#Girl #Tired #Talking

Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.
-- John McEnroe

#Thinking #Ties #Tennis

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

#Love You #Kids #Kissing

There's too much money and too many nice guys around.
-- John McEnroe

#Nice #Tennis #Guy

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.
-- John McEnroe

#Sports #Games #People

To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.
-- John McEnroe

#Senior #States

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.
-- John McEnroe

#Book #Names #Care

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.
-- John McEnroe

#Sports #Used

Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.
-- John McEnroe

#Games #Tennis #Lows

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.
-- John McEnroe

#Tennis #Unexpected #Predictable

Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.
-- John McEnroe

#Running #Tennis #Nerves

I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.
-- John McEnroe

#Years

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

#Thinking #People #Tennis

I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.
-- John McEnroe

#Thinking #Monsters

Bush is an idiot and he's President, so anything's possible
-- John McEnroe

#President #Idiot

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.
-- John McEnroe

#Player #Tennis #Wish

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.
-- John McEnroe

#Tennis #Lessons #Taught

You cannot be serious!
-- John McEnroe

#Serious

Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?
-- John McEnroe

#Problem #Unemployed #Dork

That's one of the best sets I've seen him play, although I should preface that by saying I haven't seen him play before.
-- John McEnroe

#Play #Tennis #Should

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.
-- John McEnroe

#Happiness #Successful #Unhappy

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.
-- John McEnroe

#Player #Games #Roger

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?
-- John McEnroe

#People #Care #Cups

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
-- John McEnroe

#Play #Tennis #Guy

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

#Numbers #Needs #Looks