John McEnroe quotes

I'll let the racket do the talking.
- John McEnroe

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.
- John McEnroe

I would put tiebreakers in the fifth set, no question about it.
- John McEnroe

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

I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.
- John McEnroe

I used to get two racquets a year. As you can imagine, they didn't last me too long.
- John McEnroe

I'm going to vote for Obama. I'm going for the change.
- John McEnroe

Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act.
- John McEnroe

Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams.
- John McEnroe

You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.
- John McEnroe

Look at Becker and Djokovic. If you look at Novak's record since Boris has been there, it's been phenomenal.
- John McEnroe

I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.
- John McEnroe

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
- John McEnroe

I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.
- John McEnroe

You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him.
- John McEnroe

Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.
- John McEnroe

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
- John McEnroe

What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.
- John McEnroe

The sting of losing is bad.
- John McEnroe

If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.
- John McEnroe

Sometimes you get hungrier when you taste it.
- John McEnroe

I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf.
- John McEnroe

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.
- John McEnroe

I'd never left America until I was 18.
- John McEnroe

There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
- John McEnroe

I went on safari in South Africa just after apartheid had ended.
- John McEnroe