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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.
Jimmy Connors
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Jimmy Connors
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: September 2
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James Scott Connors
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