Jimmy Connors Quotes

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Jimmy Connors

Profession : Tennis Player

Birth : September 2, 1952

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.

Jimmy Connors

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jimmy Connors