You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
JOHN MCENROE It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New Yor...
JOHN MCENROE The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you hav...
JOHN MCENROE I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from ...
JOHN MCENROE I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patr...
JOHN MCENROE Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
JOHN MCENROE I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
JOHN MCENROE I am amazed, not only by the beauty of Roger's game, but also the consistency of his tournament wins...
JOHN MCENROE He's the most gifted player that I've ever seen in my life. I've seen a lot of people play. I've see...
JOHN MCENROE What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying ...
JOHN MCENROE I was a Yankee fan until 1981. That was the year the Yankees were two up on the Dodgers and lost fou...
JOHN MCENROE There was a line call that didn't look so great. I went ballistic. Called the umpire a jerk. Wha...
JOHN MCENROE The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy...
JOHN MCENROE No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but t...
JOHN MCENROE If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned go...
JOHN MCENROE Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?
JOHN MCENROE I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably ...
JOHN MCENROE The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo a...
JOHN MCENROE Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
JOHN MCENROE Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those t...
JOHN MCENROE I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back pr...
JOHN MCENROE If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least ...
JOHN MCENROE Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams.
JOHN MCENROE You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that'...
JOHN MCENROE His experience and work ethic is a wonderful example for the rest of this squad. This is a very prof...
JOHN MCENROE One of the things I respected about Connors was that one second he would be spewing a four-letter wo...
JOHN MCENROE Do women golfers say they could go out and beat Tiger Woods?
JOHN MCENROE With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn'...
JOHN MCENROE Jack Nicholson didn't get anything until he was in his thirties. You have to persevere and put y...
JOHN MCENROE C'mon, Anna, right at the girl. She's the champion of Canada.
JOHN MCENROE There's a guy who rarely, if ever, beats himself. He completely choked on those last four points.
JOHN MCENROE I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling th...
JOHN MCENROE They should be required to be in less events; there should be less events for the women. It seems it...
JOHN MCENROE If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my Go...
JOHN MCENROE I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was...
JOHN MCENROE I like John McCain, or he seems like a cool guy in a lot of ways. I don't agree with a lot of hi...
JOHN MCENROE Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more major...
JOHN MCENROE There's a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
JOHN MCENROE When I walk out there on court, I become a maniac... Something comes over me, man.
JOHN MCENROE It's scary how good he is.
JOHN MCENROE Now I get docked 10 to 20 per cent (of my appearance fee) if I don't yell at some people and break a...
JOHN MCENROE You are the pits of the world! Vultures! Trash!
JOHN MCENROE Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people
JOHN MCENROE London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.
JOHN MCENROE We expect a tough match in Belgium on clay, ... Andy has been the stalwart of the team and the Bryan...
JOHN MCENROE On paper Andre is the better player, the more experienced and one of the greatest players that's eve...
JOHN MCENROE When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We ...
JOHN MCENROE I'd love to see a seniors event at U.S. Open in singles, not just hit-and-giggle doubles.
JOHN MCENROE I think the U.S. Open was the best in many years, with (Andre) Agassi making the finals. The problem...
JOHN MCENROE There was nowhere to go but the campfire at night. I had never slept in a sleeping bag. It was reall...
JOHN MCENROE It was nice to see how hard he was trying to beat my record because perhaps now people will realize ...
JOHN MCENROE Muller was great, but to say this is a shocker is an understatement. This is an unbelievable setback...
JOHN MCENROE It's great for tennis, and it's not just the fact that they're Americans ? although we want the Amer...
JOHN MCENROE The physicality of the match is going to be a big thing, ... Is Andre going to be fresh enough? And ...
JOHN MCENROE It's the physical part for Andre: Is Andre going to be fresh enough? ... And it's the mental part fo...
JOHN MCENROE We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't ...
JOHN MCENROE We should be trying anything and everything. It's amazing to me how little has changed in tennis, .....
JOHN MCENROE That, ... is going to require some deep thought.
JOHN MCENROE He still believes he can win one more time.
JOHN MCENROE ...The ball was in!.........
JOHN MCENROE The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you hav...
JOHN MCENROE I played a lot of night matches, ... People have finished a long hard day of work and they try to lo...
JOHN MCENROE We should be trying anything and everything, like all sports are doing, ... It is amazing to me how ...
JOHN MCENROE 'Someday you'll thank me for this. I wondered about that for a while. Then I understood what she mea...
JOHN MCENROE Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
JOHN MCENROE You want to be humiliated by a couple of young Canadians?
JOHN MCENROE It's all about Roger and then it's about the others,
JOHN MCENROE This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.
JOHN MCENROE Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?
JOHN MCENROE If you believe that [Anna Kournikova's claim that she is a virgin], I've never questioned a call in ...
JOHN MCENROE If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-...
JOHN MCENROE There's always a concern when you play the week before a major. That's not the easiest time ...
JOHN MCENROE I've seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I'd sure li...
JOHN MCENROE We expect a tough match in Belgium on clay. Andy has been the stalwart of the team and the Bryans ha...
JOHN MCENROE The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige.
JOHN MCENROE The perception is I didn't get along with umpires, obviously, and I didn't, on the court. Bu...
JOHN MCENROE I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.
JOHN MCENROE As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ra...
JOHN MCENROE I'll let the racket do the talking.
JOHN MCENROE When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they l...
JOHN MCENROE I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too f...
JOHN MCENROE But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those ...
JOHN MCENROE It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now...
JOHN MCENROE I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren't used to that kind of beha...
JOHN MCENROE If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.
JOHN MCENROE I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have ...
JOHN MCENROE What I'll get feedback-wise from the guys is two things: speed of the court and indoor-outdoor,
PATRICK MCENROE Although I picked her a couple of times to win a major, and she keeps choking.
PATRICK MCENROE I love the way he comes out for Davis Cup. He brings that energy, he likes the big stage and things ...
PATRICK MCENROE I had a couple of discussions with him late last year, early this year. Any time he says he's intere...
PATRICK MCENROE Playing Chile represents the next step in our ultimate goal of bringing the Davis Cup back to the US...
PATRICK MCENROE If he get his health together and is playing well in the summer, certainly I will talk to him. Any t...
PATRICK MCENROE We had it just to have a party, and since we were having a party, we wanted the money to go to a goo...
COLIN MCENROE I'm a registered Democrat and, like a lot of my species here in Connecticut, I don't know whom I'm g...
COLIN MCENROE We didn't know from year to year whether we were going to keep doing that, and now it does seem to h...
COLIN MCENROE We expect a tough match in Belgium on clay. Andy has been the stalwart of the team and the Bryans ha...
PATRICK MCENROE I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover ...
COLIN MCENROE I am always amused by them. They aren't wrong, but they just aren't project- specific enough.
KATE MCENROE I sometimes rented a car and drove from event to event in Europe; a road trip was a great escape fro...
PATRICK MCENROE We made a successful, last-minute effort to get the French Open many years ago, when the USA network...
PATRICK MCENROE It could be a very tough tie, or we could get up 3-zip. We know how well they can play, particularly...
PATRICK MCENROE The Ministerial Alliance was in accord on this. They were all for it and I hope it can happen every ...
GLORIA MCENROE The production is about the life of Christ, it's not a Christmas program. It works because it's not ...
GLORIA MCENROE Easter is for all of us and a sunrise service is so meaningful, I thought it would be nice for the c...
GLORIA MCENROE You have to find that thing that makes you different but by the time you get down to the shortlist, ...
KATE MCENROE If you've got someone that needs a really strong airport, that works in your favor.
KATE MCENROE If the hot cities (in magazines) were the best places for everybody, I would be out of a job.
KATE MCENROE My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN