John McEnroe Quotes

It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.

John McEnroe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1959

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Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

Stone Gossard

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Recognizing chronic sadness may encourage someone to reach out to a friend, family member, or counselor rather than concealing the distress.

Mary Pilon

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If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have been able to build a hospital in Congo. It started in 1997, and 10 years later I was able to unveil the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, named after my mother, in my hometown outside of Kinshasa. It was such a blessing.

Dikembe Mutombo

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I'm not a money guy.

CM Punk

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I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

Bobby Moynihan

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If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.

Ato Essandoh

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If you start focusing on the next job, then you're probably not going to do the one you have very well.

William H. McRaven

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After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented.

Scott Aukerman

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Working with Lucille Ball was just a master class in how to do comedy.

Tim Matheson

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I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

Kyle Chandler

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Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

James Gleick

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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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