John McEnroe Quotes

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.

Look at Becker and Djokovic. If you look at Novak's record since Boris has been there, it's been phenomenal.

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.

The Houston team I was on - we were just rolling. We just hit the right stride at the right moment. And the Lakers team, we were rolling again.

I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.

This is just a 'Boom!' of energy for me to win a Grand Slam.

Even when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that I would play Serena in a final of a Grand Slam.

It doesn't always work out that you win a tournament and then a Grand Slam, but I'm happy to have the confidence.

For me, every tournament is important, and I feel that if I don't go into them with 100 per cent focus, I will not be ready for the Grand Slams.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

These days, men's singles is very hard. If you lose the first, you might lose everything.