Jimmy Connors

I hate to lose more than I love to win. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#i #i love #lose #love #more

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. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#brief #challenge #failure #get #inactivity

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

— Jimmy Connors

#i #know #life #my life #read

I was never part of the crowd. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#i #never #part

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

#best #clear #could #every #every time

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

— Jimmy Connors

#advantage #anything #damned #experience #get

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#family #five #important #important thing #last

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

#drive #each #just #lived #lives

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 #fire #flame #him #i

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. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#clean #guts #love #make #new