A biography for John McEnroehasn’t been written yet.
“I am finicky about making sure my sneakers are pretty tight. It is almost like a superstition for me.”
“Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.”
“You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears.”
“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.”
“To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.”
“I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.”
“The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'”
“Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams.”
“I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety.”
“The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.”
“What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.”
“When I felt I was rejected by my first wife, and she said, 'Some day you will thank me for this,' you know what? I do. And so, sometimes it is darkest before the dawn. You can think it is bleak and you can't see. You never know.”
“I'd never left America until I was 18.”
“I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.”
“What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.”
“It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream.”
“Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don't have one.”
“I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.”
“Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.”
“I'm going to vote for Obama. I'm going for the change.”