A Quote by Patrick McEnroe

I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras. — © Patrick McEnroe
I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.
I love Serena [Williams]. Seeing what Serena's done in her field has been incredible.
I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?
I was a big fan of Pete Sampras.
John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed.
I'm just glad to see that Pete (Sampras) shut everyone up last year. That was satisfying. You can't bag on guys like Pete or Tiger (Woods) or Michael Jordan. They can play as long as they want, they can do whatever they want. Nobody should be able to tell them differently.
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.
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.
I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.
I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.
I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look.
I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
I want the serve of Goran Ivanisevic, the heart of Lleyton Hewitt, the mind of Pete Sampras and the ground strokes of Roger Federer.
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.
I'm not invincible. I'm no Serena Williams.
First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.
Serena Williams is my sports idol.
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