Top 84 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.
Jimmy Connors
#2. But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
Jimmy Connors
#3. Jimmy Connors likes the ball to come at him in a straight line, so that he can hit it back in another straight line. When it comes to him in a curve, he uses up half of his energy straightening it up again.
Clive James
#4. I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!
Jimmy Connors
#5. 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.
Jimmy Connors
#7. What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.
Jimmy Connors
#8. I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.
Loren Mazzacane Connors
#9. 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
#10. Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.
Jimmy Connors
#11. The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.
Rhys Ifans
#12. The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.
Jimmy Connors
#13. If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.
Stompin' Tom Connors
#14. I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
Chuck Connors
#15. 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
#16. From Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day Maybe God isn't omnipotent. Maybe he's just been around so long, he knows everything.
Phil Connors
#17. Sometimes he'd write my mother's new name under his on a scrap of paper ... then, the one that hurt her teeth to see, Mrs. Brock Connors-as if, by marrying, my father would be himself, and also become her.
Laura Kasischke
#18. This is Lonesome Ridge, so we'd be the lonesome young," I pointed out. "Sounds like a song."
"Sounds like a heartache," he said, tightening his arms around me and resting his cheek on the top of my heard. "I don't want to be lonesome. I want to be with you.
Lucy Connors
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Developing a Culture of Accountability where people take ownership for achieving key organizational results requires a willingness to make the link between where you are and what you have done with where you want to be and what you are going to do to get there.
Roger Connors
#23. 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
#24. The day I left baseball, I became smart. When I was in baseball, I played for the love of the game. I'd sign any contract they gave me. But then I stopped playing and began doing interviews with the players at the ball park. I began to see the light.
Chuck Connors
#25. I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.
Chuck Connors
#26. Cat Steven's song Wild World: Oh Baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard to get by just on a smile, Oh baby, baby, it's a wild world and I'll always remember you like a child.
Jennifer Connors
#27. Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games
if you count exhibitions
and I'm overpaid!
Johnny Bench
#28. Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in as much as he takes out. I guess it's to the hard knocks of life that I attribute this conclusion.
Stompin' Tom Connors
#29. 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
#30. The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.
Jimmy Connors
#31. Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.
Jimmy Connors
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.
Chuck Connors
#40. Our elected leaders treat us as children or consumers - ideally both, monstrous in our appetites, unable to discriminate between our wants and our needs.
Philip Connors
#41. Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.
Philip Connors
#42. I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.
Stefan Edberg
#43. For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
Jimmy Connors
#44. 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
#45. With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
Jimmy Connors
#46. 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
#47. I can tell you that the only ting in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.
Lucy Connors
#48. I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.
Jimmy Connors
#49. On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.
Stompin' Tom Connors
#50. If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated.
Chuck Connors
#51. In the modern game, you're a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist
or a hard court specialist ... or you're Roger Federer.
Jimmy Connors
#52. I've always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another ... ... transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.
Philip Connors
#53. One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'
Philip Connors
#54. I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
Jimmy Connors
#55. When you're doing all you can and "what more?" seems an impossible task, try thinking differently, step outside your box, and open your mind to solutions that were there all the time. Solutions you just couldn't see. Act
Roger Connors
#56. The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.
Phillip Connors
#57. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.
Jimmy Connors
#58. 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.
Jimmy Connors
#59. Blood might be thicker than water, but love was the most powerful magic of all.
Lucy Connors
#60. Behind the shadows there lies defeat; Fancy the light where her smile greets.
Jackie Connors
#61. I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.
Chuck Connors
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Believe me, Alex. I am trying. My fucking bed is too big for me. It feels empty now. I can't believe I'm even saying that, but whatever. That's how I feel. I want you back. I want you to move in. I want you with me again.
Tijan
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.
Stompin' Tom Connors
#72. I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.
Chuck Connors
#73. Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle ... always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more exhausted and richer on that side.
Phillip Connors
#75. There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all.
Jimmy Connors
#76. When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.
Andre Agassi
#77. It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world,
Stompin' Tom Connors
#78. When I'm speaking, I'm more focused on the words as meaning. When I'm singing, I'm more focused on the words as sound. The emotion is more targeted when I'm speaking, more flowing when I'm singing.
Loren Mazzacane Connors
#79. I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time
Jimmy Connors
#80. It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'
Philip Connors
#81. 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
#83. I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?
Jimmy Connors
#84. I'm more of a Cristal Connors than a Nomi Malone.
Brad Goreski
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