Top 159 Quotes & Sayings by John McEnroe - Page 3

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

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.

Do women golfers say they could go out and beat Tiger Woods?

If you yell at your box, I'm not really sure it's something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself.

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.

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.

In general, people are administered drugs too readily.

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.

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.

They should be required to be in less events; there should be less events for the women. It seems it takes an actual meltdown on the court or women quitting the game altogether before they realize there's a need to change the schedule.

My greatest strength is that I have no weaknesses.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The only thing championship about Wimbledon is its prestige.

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.

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.

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.

You cannot be serious!

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

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

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

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.

Serena Williams best female player ever - no question.