Jimmy Connors Quotes
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Jimmy Connors Quotes & Sayings
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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
or a hard court specialist ... or you're Roger Federer. — Jimmy Connors
I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?
— Jimmy Connors
Use it or lose it.
— Jimmy Connors
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
But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
— Jimmy Connors
When you're hot, anything can happen.
— 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
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
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
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
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.
— Jimmy Connors
I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time
— Jimmy Connors
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
— Jimmy Connors
The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.
— Jimmy Connors
There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all.
— Jimmy Connors
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
— 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
For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
— 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
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
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
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
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
The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.
— 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
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
I was never part of the crowd.
— Jimmy Connors
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
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
What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.
— Jimmy Connors