I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.
Martina Navratilova |
John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.
Clive James The Observer |
John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.
Clive James The Observer |
John McEnroe's so good. Against him, all you can do is shake hands and take a shower.
Tomas Smid (1984) |
McEnroe claims John Lloyd is more popular than him because Lloyd married Chris Evert. McEnroe wouldn't be popular if he was married to Marie Osmond.
Terry Kelleher (1979) |
On John McEnroe - I don't know that my behaviour has improved that much with age. They just found someone worse.
Jimmy Connors (1984) |
On losing badly to McEnroe at Wimbledon- For two weeks I've been seeing the ball like a basketball. Today, I couldn't see it.
Jimmy Connors (1984) |
On making the semi-finals of the Australian Open - It's just like you expected - Edberg, Lendl, McEnroe, and Becker.
Patrick McEnroe |
Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.
Dan Jenkins Playboy (1985) |
Tennis players are a load of w**kers. I'd love to put John McEnroe in the centre for Fulham [Rugby League Club] and let some of the big players sort him out.
Colin Wetland (1980) |
The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.
Clive James |
The best doubles pair in the world is John McEnroe and anyone else.
Peter Fleming (1990) |
