John McEnroe Quotes

The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an artist, when you're in there by yourself, trying to do something great, and people who don't even know you can come up and just dump on you.

John McEnroe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Jimmy Connors

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I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

John Catsimatidis

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I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

Matthew Ashford

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For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.

Ann McLane Kuster

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I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.

Michael Gove

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The United States needs an energy policy that ensures America's tax, trade, regulatory and access policies are transparent and predictable.

John S. Watson

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If youth knew; if age could.

Sigmund Freud

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What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

Robert D. Kaplan

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The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

Mary Doria Russell

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Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

Jonathan Pryce

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For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

Diane Lane

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It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else!

Sydney Pollack

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