Jimmy Connors Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Jimmy Connors quotes and sayings page 2 (72 year old athlete). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 29 we have for him.
“Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.”
“I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?”
“Use it or lose it.”
“I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.”
“I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.”
“From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.”
“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 mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.”
“Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'”
“There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.”
“Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.”
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