John Arthur McEnroe

Serena Williams best female player ever - no question.

If Serena Williams played the men\'s circuit she\'d be like 700 in the world.

The 1980 Wimbledon final with Borg - that\'s the one I was most proud of to be part of. It\'s talked about as one of the best matches people have seen so that certainly elevated me in a lot of different ways, even though I came out second in that one.

On a given day, Serena Williams could beat some players. I believe because she\'s so incredibly strong mentally that she could overcome some situations where players would choke \'cause she\'s been in it so many times, so many situations at Wimbledon, The U.S. Open, etc. But if she had to just play the circuit - the men\'s circuit - that would be an entirely different story.

They should be required to be in less events; there should be less events for the women. It seems it takes an actual meltdown on the court or women quitting the game altogether before they realize there\'s a need to change the schedule.

You\'re asking too much of the women. They shouldn\'t be playing as many events as men. If tennis is best served by women playing events with men, so be it.

I\'ve seen tennis clubs close in Manhattan and garages put up in their place, and I\'d sure like to be part of reversing that trend.

In general, people are administered drugs too readily.

I don\'t take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.

What I\'ve realised is that you can run miles, jump on a bike, lift weights, and all that other garbage, but the bottom line is that you get in tennis shape by playing tennis. You build the right muscles, and I don\'t believe people can do it as successfully any other way.

If you yell at your box, I\'m not really sure it\'s something where it should be a penalty. It seems like you hurt yourself.

Do women golfers say they could go out and beat Tiger Woods?

There\'s always a concern when you play the week before a major. That\'s not the easiest time for a scheduler or a promoter, I would think.

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren\'t used to that kind of behavior, so later, they tightened the rules.

I\'ve never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible.

You can\'t give away points and games against someone like Murray. You\'re not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.

I am someone who gets pretty worked up.

I\'m 56 years old. I like to get out on the court. I continue to try to play the best I can. Obviously, I\'m nowhere near where I was when half this age. But I can still hit a pretty decent ball.

When I walk out there on court, I become a maniac... Something comes over me, man.

Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys\' skin a little bit, and maybe they don\'t want to admit it, and I think that\'s, in a way, healthy.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don\'t want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

I\'d love to see all the guys play their best because I think it\'s better for tennis.

Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

With commentating, I\'ve had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn\'t use on the court. It\'s fun, and I don\'t take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I\'m not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I\'d rather let the match play out a bit first.

You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn\'t get the part.

It\'s ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream.

Maybe I should have played two more Australians and two less Davis Cups? I could have had more majors and still have three Davis Cups when most people don\'t have one.

It\'s one thing if you live in London and you\'re rooting for Chelsea or you\'re in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who\'s on the team you\'re into it. It\'s different in tennis; you\'re sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.

I grew up watching Dr. J, and I was like, \'Oh my God, this guy is the greatest basketball player I ever saw.\'