Basketball Quote by 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

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

— Jimmy Connors

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

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

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

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

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

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

— Jimmy Connors

When you're hot, anything can happen.

— Jimmy Connors

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

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

— Jimmy Connors

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with…

— Jimmy Connors