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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.

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Jimmy Connors
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: September 2
Tennis Coach
Tennis Player
East St. Louis
Illinois
James Scott Connors
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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.
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For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
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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?'
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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.
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Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do.
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I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.
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I was never part of the crowd.
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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.
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There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all.
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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.
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The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.
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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.
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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.
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I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.
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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.
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I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.
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With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
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