John McEnroe Quotes

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.

Any injury I have had, I have come back stronger.

I learned how much determination I have and that no matter what the score is, anyone can come back.

I know I am lucky to be alive - but I will race again.

I got knocked down, I don't know how many years ago and I haven't been off my feet since, and I responded again against the best in division without the respect of having the chin I'm supposed to have.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

A true champion will fight through anything.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.

Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.