John McEnroe Quotes

I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.

John McEnroe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

Jennifer Egan

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The iPad's all about proprietary apps that are supposed to be amazing on the bigger screen.

Jen Lancaster

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In my judgment, the president should reject Keystone and step up natural gas exports.

John Delaney

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The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.

Andrew J. Bernstein

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The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Robert Metcalfe

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I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.

Robert Gibbs

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I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.

Sofia Vergara

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The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.

Tom Brokaw

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The best way to build the best workforce is to focus on the largest talent pool you have.

Mary Dillon

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It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'

Lisa Murkowski

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If ESPN ever kicked me out the door and I had to get back to coach, I have to stay on top of what's going on.

Jon Gruden

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