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… — 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
