Famous Quotes

"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."

Jimmy Connors on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by Jimmy Connors

• "No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life."

• "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."

• "No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life."

• "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."