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Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Judith Viorst

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. — Judith Viorst

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I'm not begging to be remembered or whatever. I did my thing, and if you remember, that's even better. But if you don't, there's so many other things going on. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

When you're hot, anything can happen. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Rod Laver

Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis ... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away. — Rod Laver

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Pete Rose

When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up. — Pete Rose

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Bjorn Borg

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player. — Bjorn Borg

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

That's something a lot of athletes miss - a lot of them walk away too soon. They don't get everything out of their system. They have a lot of what-ifs when they're sitting around later in life. I don't have that. I got all that out of my system. I pushed it to the brink, I loved it, and when I walked away, I'd had enough. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?' — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10, 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Monica Seles

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes. — Monica Seles

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I hate to lose more than I love to win. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths. — Jimmy Connors

Best Jimmy Connors Quotes By Jimmy Connors

I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next. — Jimmy Connors