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

Use it or lose it.
Jimmy Connors

I was never part of the crowd.
Jimmy Connors

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

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

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

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