John McEnroe Quotes

You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.

If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

It's nice to invest yourself fully in whatever you're doing... I think it's best to try and give everything you've got; otherwise, what's the point?

When I go, I go hard.

You must play with the same intention: to win the game and give everything you have.

Give your 100 per cent. Whether you are working or with family and friends. Even if you are sleeping, you should give it your 100 per cent.

There's nothing worse in my book than going home with energy left over. I like to go home knowing I've put a shift in, feeling that I've pushed myself to the max.

I never want to play timid or scared of anything, especially when my pitcher or my teammates are out there going 100 percent.

Going back to being a head coach entails a full-time commitment to that job and I would not go into it for any amount of money and do it halfway. It would be a total commitment, not part-time.

Once you are in it you are in it, you have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have absolutely everything. Sometimes you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it as best I can. I'm going to give it everything.

I can play the game only one way. I must play every shot for all there is in it. I cannot play safe.

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.

Days when you just don't have it, you don't mail it in, you don't pack it in, you give it everything you've got. You grind it out, I don't care what kind of game you have, you somehow try and find a way to get it done ... That's part of my attitude and belief, that you should always have the switch on. You can't turn it on and off.

Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.

Whatever it is, I give it my all. You have to do everything you want in this one life that you have.