Top 74 Mcenroe's Quotes
#1. John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.
Tomas Smid
#2. Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.
John McEnroe
#3. Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
Chrissie Hynde
#4. Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.
John McEnroe
#5. It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.
John McEnroe
#6. I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.
John McEnroe
#7. But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.
John McEnroe
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed.
John McEnroe
#11. I have ... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.
Colin McEnroe
#12. 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
#13. An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.
Chuck Jones
#14. As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.
John McEnroe
#15. I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
John McEnroe
#16. When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.
John McEnroe
#17. 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.
John McEnroe
#18. 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
#19. When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.
Pete Rose
#20. John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed.
Brian Kilmeade
#21. I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.
John McEnroe
#22. 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
#23. Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
Boris Becker
#24. One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?
Robert Webb
#25. Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?
John McEnroe
#26. Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low.
John McEnroe
#27. A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance.
Colin McEnroe
#28. The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.
John McEnroe
#29. 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
#30. John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
Clive James
#31. Being a celebrity is like being raped, and there's absolutely nothing a player can do about it.
Patrick McEnroe
#32. McEnroe respects one guy
himself, and that's it.
Luke Jensen
#33. I think I have a newfound respect for what my parents did, to create two players - one who was really good and another who was pretty good.
Patrick McEnroe
#34. The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.
Clive James
#35. I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
John McEnroe
#36. This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.
John McEnroe
#37. Bush is an idiot and he's President, so anything's possible
John McEnroe
#38. When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'
John McEnroe
#41. McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.
Fred Perry
#42. It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.
John McEnroe
#43. I have never seen someone point after point that just gives it everything.
John McEnroe
#44. Instant replay is going to be awesome. For too long, tennis has been stuck in its traditions, which is part of its strength as a game. But you have to be able to change some things and get fans interested.
Patrick McEnroe
#45. As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
Sachin Tendulkar
#46. There's too much money and too many nice guys around.
John McEnroe
#47. It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city.
John McEnroe
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.
John McEnroe
#52. Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.
John McEnroe
#53. I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.
Patrick McEnroe
#54. 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.
John McEnroe
#55. 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
#56. I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.
John McEnroe
#57. Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.
Richard Krajicek
#58. 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
#59. I haven't 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
#60. I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.
John McEnroe
#61. Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.
John McEnroe
#62. We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.
John McEnroe
#63. I'm John McEnroe-like. I'm coming forward every opportunity I get. My wingspan covers some ground at the net. My serve is OK. I can move it around enough. My groundstrokes are good enough to hang in a rally with a good player. But generally, my goal is to put away a point quickly.
Matt Kuchar
#64. This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.
John McEnroe
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.
John McEnroe
#68. You cannot be serious. You CANNOT BE SERIOUS!
John McEnroe
#69. My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.
John McEnroe
#70. To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.
John McEnroe
#71. John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
Clive James
#72. I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.
Martina Navratilova
#73. 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
#74. 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
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