Jimmy Connors Quotes

There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.

Jimmy Connors

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I have a plate on my neck. I had my neck fused.

Jennifer Grey

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Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

Jensen Ackles

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When I got into songs like 'Exist,' I was like, 'Okay, this riff has some bass sweeping in it, I'm definitely going to have to use a pick... but I guess I'll have to learn how to sweep first!'

Johnny Christ

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I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Amanda Palmer

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For Maersk Line, it is never great to compete with somebody who, by definition, can't go bankrupt.

Soren Skou

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I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.

Jay Parini

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It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

Annalee Newitz

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The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

Ashton Kutcher

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If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

Alfred Hermann Fried

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I think I'm under the radar enough where I don't think I'm typecast as anything yet, so I'm pretty free and clear.

Selma Blair

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Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.

Nina Dobrev

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Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Lynn Abbey

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