"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."

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Source : "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

John McEnroe

#Play Quotes #Tennis Quotes #Should Quotes

“I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.”
“This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their mortality and to convince them that the afterlife itself is under the personal management of the particular gods they are promoting. The self-protective urges of their worshippers will do the rest.”
“The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.”
“It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.”
“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”

Source : 1948 The Great Tradition, ch.1.
“I gave thee what could not be heard What had not been given before The beat of my heart I gave !”
“The question is just as important as the answer.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.”

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