Jimmy Connors Tennis Quotations

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

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

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.

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

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.

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

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.

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

It's a youth-driven sport. There's no doubt about it, like all sports. But tennis is exceptional in throwing away the old and shuffling in the new, sometimes even before their time on both sides.

It was like bulls banging heads. He brought out the best and the worst in me and I like to think I did the same with him. Jimmy is one of the greatest players that ever lived, in my opinion. He's like the Pete Rose of tennis. I never seen a guy try as hard as this person on a tennis court. That's something I really respected.

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

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

People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

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

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match