Playing in front of 25,000 ...

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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I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!
 Jimmy Connors
People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.
 Jimmy Connors