Jimmy Connors Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Jimmy Connors quote about:
- Basketball,
- Losing,
- Sports,
- Tennis,
- Winning,
-
“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 -
“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 -
“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 -
“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 -
“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 -
“Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match”
-- Jimmy Connors -
“I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.”
-- Jimmy Connors -
“People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.”
-- Jimmy Connors -
“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 -
“Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.”
-- Jimmy Connors -
“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 -
“The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.”
-- Jimmy Connors -
“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 -
“I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.”
-- Jimmy Connors -
“I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?”
-- 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've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.”
-- Jimmy Connors -
“With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.”
-- 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 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 -
“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 -
“But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?”
-- Jimmy Connors -
“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 -
“What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.”
-- Jimmy Connors -
“People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.”
-- 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 -
“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
You may also like:
-
Andre Agassi
Tennis player -
Andy Roddick
Tennis player -
Arthur Ashe
Tennis player -
Bjorn Borg
Tennis player -
Boris Becker
Tennis player -
Chris Evert
Tennis player -
Ilie Nastase
Tennis player -
Ivan Lendl
Tennis player -
Jim Courier
Tennis player -
John McEnroe
Tennis player -
Lleyton Hewitt
Tennis player -
Martina Navratilova
Tennis player -
Mats Wilander
Tennis player -
Michael Chang
Tennis player -
Pete Sampras
Tennis player -
Rod Laver
Tennis player -
Roger Federer
Tennis player -
Stefan Edberg
Tennis player -
Steffi Graf
Tennis player -
Vitas Gerulaitis
Tennis player