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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.

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  Me , Care , I Am , Looking


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.

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  Time , Thinking , Good , Not Good Enough


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.

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  Want , Mind , True , Real


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.

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  Back , Challenge , Failure , Treat


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

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  People , Understand , War , Damn


Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  You , Great , Experience , Problem


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.

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  Me , Best , Mind , Smile


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.

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  Love , You , New , Sports


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.

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  Dad , Football , Son , Bird


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

Author: Jimmy Connors - American Athlete
  More , Law , Tennis , Teeth


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