Top 42 Jimmy Connors Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

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#3. I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

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#4. No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.

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#5. What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

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#8. The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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?'

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

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

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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#19. When you're hot, anything can happen.

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#20. For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

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#21. 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.

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

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#23. 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.

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#24. I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

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#25. In the modern game, you're a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist
or a hard court specialist ... or you're Roger Federer.

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#26. I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

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#27. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

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#28. New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

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#29. I hate to lose more than I love to win.

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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.

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#33. 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.

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#34. 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.

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

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#36. 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.

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#37. I was never part of the crowd.

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#38. There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all.

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#39. I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

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

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#41. Use it or lose it.

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#42. I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?

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