Quotes by Jimmy Connors

Jimmy Connors

[In the modern game] you’re either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist… or you’re Roger Federer…

Clay

Games

Roger

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.

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today – it’s quite evident.

Guy

Opinion

Today

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.

Nuts

Smile

Sunday

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

Real

Tennis

Thinking

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

Finals

Play

Tennis

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.

Education

Problem

Tennis

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

Important

Lasts

Years

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.

Different

Half

Way

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Tennis

Things In Life

Winning

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Athlete

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Basketball

Battle

Begging

Care

Clay

Cocky

Concern

Crowds

Dad

Different

Education

Ems

Enemy

Experience

Finals

Focus

Football

Fun

Games

Grandparent

Guy

Half

Happens

Hate

Heart

Hot

Hug

Ideas

Important

Jeans

Kissing

Lasts

Later In Life

Law

Lonely

Lost

Love

Machines

Matter

May

Missing

Mom

Motivation

Names

Numbers

Nuts

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Quotes by Jimmy Connors

Jimmy Connors

[In the modern game] you’re either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist… or you’re Roger Federer…

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.

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today – it’s quite evident.

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.

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

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

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.

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

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.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

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