John McEnroe Quotes

You cannot be serious!

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

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.

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

My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

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

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.

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.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

You can tell when someone has been on steroids 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.

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

The 1980 Wimbledon final with Borg - that's the one I was most proud of to be part of. It's talked about as one of the best matches people have seen so that certainly elevated me in a lot of different ways, even though I came out second in that one.

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.

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.

It would be a nice place if you took all the people out of the city.

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

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

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

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

Serena Williams best female player ever - no question.

The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'

On a given day, Serena Williams could beat some players. I believe because she's so incredibly strong mentally that she could overcome some situations where players would choke 'cause she's been in it so many times, so many situations at Wimbledon, The U.S. Open, etc. But if she had to just play the circuit - the men's circuit - that would be an entirely different story.

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

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

Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.

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?