John McEnroe

The American enjoyed extraordinary success on the tennis court in a career that spanned the 1970s to the 1990s, winning seven singles grand slams, claiming 10 ...

That was one of the things that I did better than almost anyone else." I was crazed," McEnroe recalls in the documentary. You may not like him, but he makes you feel." "Mentally I became really good at being able to compartmentalise to a degree. "That ball was on the line. "What are you? "A week later they called my parents to tell me I was not going to be granted membership at the club," he says in McEnroe. How can you possibly call that out?" "He grabs the hearts of people; he just does. "A lot of the times when I was in the midst of some meltdown it felt like I was thinking a funny thing at first," McEnroe, now 63, says in the documentary. "I ended up saying the arsehole thing, which was really stupid." McEnroe also labelled umpires "the absolute pits of the world", prompting the man in the chair to award a point against him.