Books Quote by Jimmy Connors Download Open image “But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?” — Jimmy Connors ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life Real Real story Should Stories Tennis Thinking
Don't let others tells you the story of your life. You know it better than them. don't you?! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I think, reading about yourself through somebody else's eyes, you're always going to have your own story. — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting? — Frank Buckles Copy Share Image
You define your own life. Dont let other people write your lifes story for you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh… — Tom Hanks 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.… — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
