John McEnroe Quotes

I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player.

John McEnroe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.

Anat Cohen

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I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Maya Lin

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

John Steinbeck

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Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

Roland Joffe

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The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.

Mike McGavick

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I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.

Molly Antopol

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Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

Molly Parker

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I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

Jonathan Haidt

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I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that's what I'm trying to do.

Dolph Ziggler

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'Twilight' is very different to the 'Vampire Academy,' completely.

Dominic Sherwood

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I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

Christina Hoff Sommers

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