Sometimes you get hungrier when you taste it.
From John McEnroe
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.
If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.
The sting of losing is bad.
I'm sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don't lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.
What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.
If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?
I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.
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 never seemed to lose his concentration.
Why don't they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played.
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