I’ve been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow. Jimmy Connors Read Quote
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. Jimmy Connors Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern. Jimmy Connors Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Jimmy Connors Read Quote
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. Jimmy Connors Read Quote
