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" Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams. "
John McEnroe
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" 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. "
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" I'm going to vote for Obama. I'm going for the change. "
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" The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me. "
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" 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. "
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" If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating. "
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" 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. "
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" When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not saying, 'Hello, how are you?' out there. "
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" The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige. "
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" In general, people are administered drugs too readily. "
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Too
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" You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him. "
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" 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. "
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Games
You
Top
" I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it. "
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Other
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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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Desire
Champion
You
" You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears. "
John McEnroe
Bad
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" The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game. "
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Late
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" There was a line call that didn't look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row. "
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" I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus. "
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" Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in a way, healthy. "
John McEnroe
Great
Healthy
Respect
" 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.' "
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" What I've realised is that you can run miles, jump on a bike, lift weights, and all that other garbage, but the bottom line is that you get in tennis shape by playing tennis. You build the right muscles, and I don't believe people can do it as successfully any other way. "
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Bike
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" 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. "
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Kid
" London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world. "
John McEnroe
Great
World
New York
" The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn't take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, 'Well, if they're offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.' "
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Africa
Money
Best
" Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up. "
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" I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose. "
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" I used to get two racquets a year. As you can imagine, they didn't last me too long. "
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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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Money
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Just
" 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. "
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Great
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" I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it. "
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" You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. "
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