Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork? "
John McEnroe
Problems
Than
You
Related Quotes:
" The perception is I didn't get along with umpires, obviously, and I didn't, on the court. But off the court, we had a good vibe. "
John McEnroe
Good
Get
Perception
" I'm 56 years old. I like to get out on the court. I continue to try to play the best I can. Obviously, I'm nowhere near where I was when half this age. But I can still hit a pretty decent ball. "
John McEnroe
I Can
Play
Try
" No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to. "
John McEnroe
Had
Other
Through
" 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
World
I Can
Look
" London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world. "
John McEnroe
Great
World
New York
" 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. "
John McEnroe
Fighting
Need
Me
" I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there. "
John McEnroe
House
New York
Boy
" I was a Yankee fan until 1981. That was the year the Yankees were two up on the Dodgers and lost four straight. And George Steinbrenner apologized to the city. "
John McEnroe
Year
Lost
Two
" I am someone who gets pretty worked up. "
John McEnroe
Up
Who
Am
" It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream. "
John McEnroe
Bad
People
Talk
" Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up. "
John McEnroe
Growing
Shy
Up
" You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. "
John McEnroe
Goes
Get
Auditions
" They would go back and listen to my matches, and two days later, I'd be fined. Because no one heard it while it was being played, but they heard it on some mic behind the court. Is that the way it should be? I don't think so. "
John McEnroe
Back
Way
Think
" 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
Great
Try
People
" 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
Like
You
Step
" What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher. "
John McEnroe
Interesting
Like
Boxing
" Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act. "
John McEnroe
Class
Act
Champions
" I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary. "
John McEnroe
Seriously
People
See
" 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. "
John McEnroe
Games
You
Top
" You're asking too much of the women. They shouldn't be playing as many events as men. If tennis is best served by women playing events with men, so be it. "
John McEnroe
Events
You
Women
" There's always a concern when you play the week before a major. That's not the easiest time for a scheduler or a promoter, I would think. "
John McEnroe
Week
Always
Play
" 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
Desire
Champion
You
" I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations. "
John McEnroe
Great
Tough
Confident
" I like John McCain, or he seems like a cool guy in a lot of ways. I don't agree with a lot of his policies, but he still seems like a cool guy. "
John McEnroe
Still
Agree
Cool
" 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. "
John McEnroe
Someone
Way
Me
" I've seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I'd sure like to be part of reversing that trend. "
John McEnroe
Seen
Up
Trend
" 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
Good
You
Say
" 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
Club
Believe
You
" I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser. "
John McEnroe
Loser
Too Much
Cry
" With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use on the court. It's fun, and I don't take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I'm not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I'd rather let the match play out a bit first. "
John McEnroe
Fun
Personality
Myself