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John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Clive James

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Clive James
Australian - Writer
Born: October 7, 1939

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

John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm there was. At his peak (say 1980 to 1984), he was the greatest tennis player who ever lived-the most talented, the most beautiful, the most tormented: a genius. For me, watching McEnroe don a blue polyester blazer and do stiff lame truistic color commentary for TV is like watching Faulkner do a Gap ad.

David Foster Wallace

John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.

Clive James

Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.

Dan Jenkins

John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed.

Brian Kilmeade

I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.

Alistair Cooke

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

John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.

Tomas Smid

I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.

Patrick McEnroe

Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

Richard Krajicek

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

Chrissie Hynde

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

You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.

Ernie Els

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

And you work for that demon, right? The one who looks like Matthew Broderick?” “John Cusack,” I corrected. “He looks like John Cusack.” “Whatever.

Richelle Mead

When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.

Chris Hadfield

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