John McEnroe Quotes

There was a line call that didn't look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Whacked a ball into the stands. Then smacked a soda can with my racket, and got soda all over the King of Sweden, who was sitting in the front row.

John McEnroe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.

Jiang Wen

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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

John Barton

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There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Steven Pinker

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I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

Tom Stoppard

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The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

Jose Mujica

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I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Diane Lane

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We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us on. But because films cost a lot of money to make and a huge amount of effort to get the people to rally, you have to really like it; you can't just semi-like it. Getting to 'really like' is the part that takes the minute.

Debra Granik

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We have built cities, developed industry and cultivated agriculture - we have transformed the State of Israel into an example and symbol for many other countries in the world.

Ariel Sharon

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I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

Pilou Asbaek

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At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I'm told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all.

Suresh Raina

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Golf has always been a part of my life. My parents have footage of me in a walker swinging a plastic club. If I didn't play golf, I would have been a baseball player. I could sit and watch baseball all day.

Peter Uihlein

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When love is not madness, it is not love.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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