Only last week, a national newspaper headline yelled “You cannot be serious! Fury at Wimbledon bosses' bid to shut local road during tennis tournament”.
Another was asked “Who are you? They picked your name out of a hat.”īut there was just something about “You cannot be serious!” - especially when delivered in McEnroe’s twangy New York brogue - that delivered real punch.Īs the New Yorker magazine once observed, this was a “tremendously cathartic” phrase, as well as being universally applicable.
“You can’t even see your own shoelace,” he told one unfortunate chair umpire at Roland Garros. McEnroe was not only an irascible player but a quotable one too. “You cannot be serious!” Why was it these four words, of all the feisty remarks that John McEnroe uttered during his 15-year career, which became so inextricably linked with his persona?
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