American - Athlete | February 16, 1959 -
I'm going to vote for Obama. I'm going for the change.
John McEnroe
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I was a Yankee fan until 1981. That was the year the Yankees were two up on the Dodgers and lost four straight. And George Steinbrenner apologized to the city.
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I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.
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I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.
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As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.
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I can't speak for other people, but I still hate losing. When I did lose, I found it easier to yell than to cry. Guys aren't supposed to cry, are they?
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The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game.
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I used to get two racquets a year. As you can imagine, they didn't last me too long.
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I had a harsh lesson in 1996, when I lost four times to Andres Gomez on clay.
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My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
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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.
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Do women golfers say they could go out and beat Tiger Woods?
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