Jimmy Connors Quotes & Sayings

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29 most famous Jimmy Connors quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 71 year old American athlete born on Sep 2, 1952.

“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 what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.”
Jimmy Connors Quotes
“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 soon as possible.”
Jimmy Connors Quotes
“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.”
“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 off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.”
Jimmy Connors Quotes
“Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.”
Jimmy Connors Quotes
“I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.”
“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 Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.”
“Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.”
“I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.”
Jimmy Connors Quotes
“I hate to lose more than I love to win.”

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