American - Athlete | February 16, 1959 -
The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for me in a lot of ways. There were times that it hurt me, but for the most part, it helped me.
John McEnroe
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Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in a way, healthy.
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Roland Garros is the only one of the four majors that is 15 days, and that is too long.
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It's only human nature to want to know what you can do on your own or with someone else.
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Sometimes you get hungrier when you taste it.
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If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.
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The sting of losing is bad.
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I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.
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What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.
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If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?
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I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
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One of the things I respected about Connors was that one second he would be spewing a four-letter word, the next second he would do something that had people falling off the aisles. Yet he never seemed to lose his concentration.
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