John McEnroe

“I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it get...”

“I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.”

“Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?”

“I thought doubles was a good way for me to practice and get some reps in - I didn't like to train in the gym as much as players these days.”

“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,...”

“The best way I knew how was to give 110% and want it more than them, and walk on the court and every moment of the match feel like it was the end of the world, in a sense. So that worked for...”

“Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in...”

“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...”

“When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they look at football players?' Because I've got news for you: when they are on the pitch, they are not...”

“One of the things I respected about Connors was that one second he would be spewing a four-letter word, the next second he would do something that had people falling off the aisles. Yet he n...”

“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....”

“Do women golfers say they could go out and beat Tiger Woods?”

“Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams.”

“If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.”

“I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.”

“London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.”

“As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.”

“Sometimes you get hungrier when you taste it.”

“Jack Nicholson didn't get anything until he was in his thirties. You have to persevere and put yourself in positions, and sooner or later, you will break through.”

“When I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while - when I woke up, I was seeing stars!”