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Jimmy Connors Biography

James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is a retired American world No. 1 tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport. He held the top ATP ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 weeks.

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I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

Ideas, Names, Obligations, Real, Say, Tolerate

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.

Breed, Charm, Mind, Nuts, Smile, Sunday

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

Greatest, Life, Tennis, Things In Life, Winning

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.

Enough, Greatest, Left, Past, Thinking, Winning

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.

Different, Drive, Half, Louis, Took, Way

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.

Heart, Helped, People, Say, Tennis

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.

Play, Tennis, Wish

I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

Cocky, Net, Reply, Thinking, Tired

That's something a lot of athletes miss - a lot of them walk away too soon. They don't get everything out of their system. They have a lot of what-ifs when they're sitting around later in life. I don't have that. I got all that out of my system. I pushed it to the brink, I loved it, and when I walked away, I'd had enough.

Athlete, Later In Life, Life, Missing, System, Walk

I like any title with the letters U. S. in front of it. To me, the U. S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

Important, Letters, Titles, Tournament, World

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

Hate, Lose, Love, Tennis, Winning

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

Advantage, Experience, Old, Take, Trouble

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.

Corners, Firing, Sports, Tennis, Would Be

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.

Dad, Grandparent, Life, Mom, Said, Tennis

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.

Longer, Senior, Seniors, Six, Years

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.

Clean, Love, Spill, Sports, Tennis

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

Faces, Hate, Like, Motivation, Softball, Sports

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.

Care, Liked, Outsider, Outsiders, Understood, Way

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

Come, Downs, Matter, Matters, Perfect, Way In Life

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.

Begging, Remember, Remembered

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