I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me! Jimmy Connors More Quotes by Jimmy Connors More Quotes From Jimmy Connors But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? Jimmy Connors tennis real thinking 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 grandparent dad mom 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 basketball baseball football 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. Jimmy Connors tennis machines 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. Jimmy Connors dad basketball football 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. Jimmy Connors senior six years It feels very different to any other match I've ever won, because I never thought about anything, reaching 500 or 800, all those numbers didn't mean anything to me, but for some reason 1.000 means a lot because it's such a huge number. Just counting to 1,000 is going to take a while. Jimmy Connors sports Use it or lose it. Jimmy Connors lose use I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next. Jimmy Connors eyes looking you fire Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind. Jimmy Connors step best mind time
