John McEnroe
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So it's kind of funny how you become so good at your other job that people forget what you did to even get this opportunity.
Yeah, it pissed me off for like 15 years.
You're a better commentator.
Then you are a player.
I'm like, wait a minute.
I finished number one four years.
And I was like, how can you say that?
That's such BS.
And then after a while, I realized, hey, wait a minute, maybe that's a compliment.
You know, maybe as you get older and hit 40, 50, I don't even want to tell you, 67 now, maybe you should be able to take some compliments.
I was a commencement speaker three years ago at Stanford.
I was the first, you know, athlete ever to be the commencement speaker.
First dropout ever to be the commencement speaker.
And they asked me to speak to the senior class presidents.
And the reason, a big reason they picked me to be the speaker was because they heard me being a narrator on Never Have I Ever.
This is a show that Mindy Kaling did where I was the narrator for four years.
I go, you know I was a tennis player, right?
And I'm not a goddamn narrator, you know, in my full-time job.
So you never know.
Like, this was one of those...