John McEnroe Quotes

I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.

I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.

The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.

I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.

Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, 'If you don't win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.

If it's meant to be for you, it's going to happen.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

I really believe you get what you're supposed to get.