A Quote by Sachin Tendulkar

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

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Sachin Tendulkar
Indian - Cricketer
Born: April 24, 1973

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

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

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

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

Ivan Lendl was the best player I ever played. He was the first guy to bring the game to more of a power level and you could know that if he played really well you could get blown off court and that wouldn't happen against John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or even Bjorn Borg or Guillermo Vilas.

Mats Wilander

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

In the 1980s when I was growing up in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead I was heavily into tennis. It was the era of Borg and McEnroe. I used to spend hours hitting balls against a wall, imagining I was beating them both.

Peter Jones

John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.

Clive James

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

Brian Kilmeade

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

Clive James

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

Tomas Smid

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

One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?