Jimmy Connors Quotes

I hate to lose more than I love to win.
Jimmy Connors

Love, Hate, Win

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

Failure, Try, Challenge

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

Life, Real, Why

I was never part of the crowd.
Jimmy Connors

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
Jimmy Connors

Work, Fun, Battle

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.
Jimmy Connors

Best, Smile, Mind

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

Time, Best, Mind

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

Great, Experience, Problem

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

Life, Family, Important

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

Time, Different, Lives

I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.
Jimmy Connors

Fire, Him, Eyes

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

Sports, Love, Stop

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

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.
Jimmy Connors

War, Understand, Seem

Use it or lose 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

Remember, Else, Another

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Nationality: American

Born: September 2, 1952

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