FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: bbc.co.uk

JOHN MCENROE

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TENNIS QUOTES

Quotes by and about John McEnroe

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Take a lot of deep breaths - and remember anything can happen. That's what sport is all about.- John McEnroe, Wimbledon 2000

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My mother made me promise her I'd always play for my country if I was asked.- John McEnroe

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I would question every line call, just for the tiniest chance that they [the umpires] would give me an overrule.- John McEnroe from When Tennis Ruled the World, BBC documentary

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He is the most vain, ill-tempered, petulant loudmouth that the game of tennis has ever known.- The Sun, a British tabloid, 1979

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What you might say about John is that he shoots from the hip through his mouth.- John McEnroe Sr

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I saw chalk! CHALK FLEW UP!- Disputing a line call

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Pits of the world!- His name for the umpire, Ted James

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You cannot be serious!- Still disputing the line call and failing to get an overrule.

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Jimmy Connors, in a disagreement with one let call on his serve, then said to that court official:
I'm not going to f*****g run away from you like that f**kface McEnroe!

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One advertising agency president said of him:
When I see McEnroe, I see 'bad sport'. I wouldn't want him identified with my product.

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I play four or five times a week. I'd still rather win than lose. I'm more competitive than the average bear.- When asked how life was on the Seniors Tour

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I've never been there before - I never thought they'd let me in.- On going to Buckingham Palace

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I know somebody said it in the past, but chalk flew up.- A disputed line call in Lleyton Hewitt's first round exit prompts a familiar response; Wimbledon 2000

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Hey, that's how I was. My kid brother Patrick always got the ice-cream. That was OK, though. I got the title.- After hearing Venus Williams' comment that younger siblings got everything they wanted; Wimbledon 2000

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It depends on what your definition of playing is. Put it this way, you won't be seeing them at Wimbledon - unless they come to visit.- When asked whether any of his six children would follow him into professional tennis

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David Mercer: The one mistake I made was that I said it was the third set when it was the second.

McEnroe: I find it hard to believe that was the only mistake, but we'll leave it at that.- David Mercer, the umpire at the 1984 final of McEnroe versus Connors is subject to yet more viperous verbal abuse 6 years later; Wimbledon 2000

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He's playing so lazily he looks like he's about to ask for a chair and play sitting down.- On Arnaud Clement versus Tim Henman; Wimbledon 2000

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That doesn't matter because I think he likes a few of the other things she's shown him as well.- When informed that Andre Agassi disliked the new forehand that his girlfriend, Steffi Graf, had shown him; Wimbledon 2000(in disbelief)

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That is such a British comment!- When fellow commentator John Lloyd is making excuses for Rusedski, who is getting duly pasted by Ivanisevic, Wimbledon 2001

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Yeah, maybe he's phoning for a better return.- When a player asks for the trainer to be called; Wimbledon 2001