KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Jimmy Connors Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Jimmy Connors

Showing 21-29 of 29 Quotes by 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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Jimmy Connors

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

~Jimmy Connors

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Jimmy Connors

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Jimmy Connors

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: September 2nd, 1952

Links

Find Jimmy Connors on Amazon

Related Authors

Muhammad Ali
Lance Armstrong
Yogi Berra
Kobe Bryant
Michael Jordan
Satchel Paige
Steve Prefontaine
Mike Tyson

Popular Authors

Jean-Michel Basquiat Henry Ford Christopher Mccandless Alexander Pope Lucius Annaeus Seneca Alfred Lord Tennyson J. R. R. Tolkien Emil Zatopek

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Chance Death Easter Environmental Friendship Inspirational Medical Respect