73 Quotes by Jimmy Connors

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

What works for the person you’re imitating may not work for you.

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.

I’m not begging to be remembered or whatever. I did my thing, and if you remember, that’s even better. But if you don’t, there’s so many other things going on.

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

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?’

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

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today – it’s quite evident.

I don’t go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.