John McEnroe Quotes

I learned from my past.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

If one doesn’t examine one’s mistakes and look back, how else does one have vision?

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

Looking back at the 'Wonder Years,' I see things I did well, and I see things I did very, very badly.

I've learnt from my life experience.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.

You can learn a lot if you become a student of what's happening to you.

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

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.

Change comes from reflection.

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.