"You can't be serious" (June 22, 1981)

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It's "You can't be serious," not "You cannot be serious." You cannot always
get what you want.
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YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS
by John McEnroe with James Kaplan
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
2002
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Pg. 132:
Although this was to become one of my most famous matches, I'm positive
almost nobody remembers who I played, and where I played it: Tom Gullikson,  first
round, Wimbledon, 1981.
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Pg. 133:
I threw my _new_ racket and gave a scream that came straight from
Queens--but that traveled very far in the years since.
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""Man, you cannot be serious!"
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"You guys are the absolute pits of the world you know that?" I screamed.
Another colorful bit of Queens-ese.
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22 June 1981, New York Post, pg. 53, col. 3:
"Why can't I argue--is it against the law to argue?" McEnroe snapped.
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In the 12th game he hammered his racquet on the turf and shouted at James
after a sideline placement was called out. The crowd, which had been solidly on
McEnroe's side, then began a slow handclap as a sign of disapproval, and
resumed  it in the tie-breaker when he argued over a service fault.
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Before the seventh game of the second set, while changing ends, McEnroe
banged his chair with his racquet.
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This brought a rebuke from James, who said: "You are misusing your racquet,
Mr. McEnroe."
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Two games later another call went against McEnroe.
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"You can't be serious," McEnroe shrieked at the umpire. "You are an
incompetent fool, an offense against the world."
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23 June 1981, New York Daily News, pg. 52, col. 3:
Two game later another call went against McEnroe. "You can't be serious,"
McEnroe shrieked at the umpires. "You are an incompetent fool, an offense
against the world."