John McEnroe Quotes

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.

The only reason I look back is to check if I've been doing something wrong. I look at things from even three years ago and think, 'I wouldn't do that now.' Your life changes.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.