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Tennis Quotes by Jimmy Connors
- 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…
- Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.
- 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…
- The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.
- Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
- Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match
- I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time
- I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but…
- I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.
- Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.
- People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if…
- But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
- 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…
- 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.
- I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.
- With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
- 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, or…
- 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…
- 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.
More Tennis Quotes
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. — Arthur Ashe
- I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. — Arthur Ashe
- Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. — Arthur Ashe
- Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing. — Boris Becker
- Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because… — Boris Becker
- When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully… — Hugo Black
- What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. — Andre Agassi
- First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Being number two sucks. — Andre Agassi
- I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis. — Andre Agassi