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 Copy Share Image
Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis. — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern. — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
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… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident. — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it. — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
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,… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow. — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
