East St Quotes
- 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… — 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
- East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66… — Jonathan Kozol
- The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl… — Josephine Baker
- Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee