Jimmy Connors Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Athlete, Later In Life, Missing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Jimmy Connors

  Law, Tennis, Teeth

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• 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

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• When you're hot, anything can happen.

  Jimmy Connors

  Hot, Anything Can Happen, Happens

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

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Thinking, Tennis

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

  Jimmy Connors

  Experience, Trouble, Advantage

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• 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

  Remember, Begging, Remembered

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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

  Jimmy Connors

  Jeans, Problem

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

  Jimmy Connors

  Years, Important, Lasts

  Jimmy Connors (2013). “The Outsider: My Autobiography”, p.364, Random House

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• 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

  Different, Half, Way

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• 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

  Basketball, Mom, Baseball

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• 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

  Basketball, Football, Dad

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• 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

  Important, Titles, World

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

  Jimmy Connors

  Tennis, Swirls, Concern

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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

  Jimmy Connors

  Play, Tennis, Finals

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• 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

  Smile, Sunday, Nuts

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• 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

  Mom, Dad, Grandparent

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• 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

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  "Tennis champion Jimmy Connors". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

  Jimmy Connors

  War, Umpires, People

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• 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

  Sports, Tennis, Machines

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• 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

  People, Missing, Trying

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• 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

  Senior, Years, Six

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