John McEnroe Quotes

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

The will to win is the only thing.

As a football player, your mentality is that you're going to win the Super Bowl. You have to think that when you're playing the game.

I know I can go for days. I've proved this time and time again, against grinders.

I'm very militant with my state of mind. I'm very task at hand and I don't let any interference ever enter my mind.

I knew Avila was going to be a tough, strong opponent. I cracked him a few times early, but he kept bouncing back every time. When I knocked him down, I could tell he wasn't hurt and was impressed by his toughness. He brought out the best in me.

You have to have that willingness and that fight to get back in the game and get a point or a win. I don't think you can teach or learn that kind of thing.

If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.

Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

You want to win everything you are in.

I have the strength to endure it all.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.