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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.

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Jimmy Connors
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: September 2
Tennis Coach
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East St. Louis
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James Scott Connors
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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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For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.
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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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Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.
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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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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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I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.
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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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There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all.
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I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time
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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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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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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.
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Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.
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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.
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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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What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.
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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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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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I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?
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