Jimmy Connors Quotes About Football

Quotes about: Football

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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