Jimmy Connors Quotes

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

Jimmy Connors

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 2, 1952

Topics

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Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Joe Paterno

SuccessGoodHonorWillHungerYour

To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.

Meghan Daum

LifeSuccessYourselfSeriouslyTake

If I was counselling an individual, and my purpose was to help that individual, the most important thing would be that you should save more. Because don't expect that your retirement will follow those trajectories that some advisers are telling you.

Robert J. Shiller

PurposeRetirementHelpYouFollow

There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals, it fits perfectly. But we cannot assume that all evolutionary steps arise from selection, particularly when looking at smaller animals.

John Tyler Bonner

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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Steve Earle

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I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.

Sonakshi Sinha

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Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

Ron White

DiamondsUpHerMinuteShut

I didn't sing, but I did play the drums.

Miguel Ferrer

PlaySingDrumsDid

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

Moby

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I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

Judy Sheindlin

ExperienceThinkAppearanceWant

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

Brooke Burke

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