Jimmy Connors Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?”

“I was never part of the crowd.”

“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.”

“Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.”

“For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.”

“People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.”

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

“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 was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.”

“You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour.”