But Seriously: An Autobiography

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Even now, more than thirty years later, I'm as hot as I was in the fifth set and I can taste the red clay on my tongue. So I was hanging out with Vitas Gerulaitis – literally the coolest dude who has ever lived – when I met Andy Warhol for the first time.

At the US Open in 2009, John McEnroe was in the commentary box when Serena Williams unleashed one of the most spectacular tantrums in the history of tennis. He is pretty generous with his praise when he sees excellence or even effort and I admire his wide ranging interests.Here he candidly explores the roots of his famous on-court explosions; his ambivalence toward the sport that made him famous; his adventures (and misadventures) on the road; his views of colleagues from Connors to Borg to Lendl; his opinions of contemporary tennis-and his current roles as husband, father, senior tour player, and often-controversial commentator. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. John McEnroe is one of the most famous people to have emerged, in any field, over the last fifty years.

Luckily, I managed to rescue it from his estate but I didn’t put it up on my wall as it wasn’t very good. In a story about working with Larry David, he manages to mention in passing “Jerry Seinfeld, who I thought was great (he lives one floor below me in our New York building now, so he’s not done too badly)”. But Seriously is a cocktail lounge chat, full of tales from McEnroe’s 21st century life, be it as Manhattan resident, father of six, husband of singer Patty Smyth, son of two driven parents, art collector, musical dabbler, TV movie guest and, most significantly, that rarity, a tennis player with cross-over cache .In case you didn't notice, to enjoy this book as much as I did, it helps to be a tennis player and fan. However, it’s still an autobiography, and therefore I can’t help but feel he might have left out the bits that he didn’t like. Or that he is a major collector and dealer of contemporary art, and hobnobbed with Andy Warhol and other celebrities as a young star in New York. After the brick wall of the junior high in grade school and against my brother in the street, I got bit by the tennis bug early on.

But despite the wide range of her sporting and broadcasting experience, the one question she is always asked is "What is it like to work with John McEnroe"?In this second memoir written by John McEnroe, “But Seriously” fails to meet the standard reached in his first book, “You Cannot Be Serious. I really enjoyed listening to the stories that concerned them (not always cheerful and pleasant), quickly discovering which ones he related with most and with whom he didn't get along well, but always giving life to exceptional match. Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U. Through his words, we know better also the other champions of the past: Borg, Connors, Vilas, Gerulaitis, Năstase.