Jimmy Connors Quotes
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.
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It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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I think I have just evolved as a person, as a human being. I like fitness. It's an important part of my everyday life, and I enjoy and endorse a healthy lifestyle.
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.
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Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.
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Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
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The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
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(Kirk Gibson's World Series-game-winning home run, October 15, 1988, transcribed from mlb.com archives excising comments by color commentator Joe Garagiola)
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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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We must listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.
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I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.
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I was never part of the crowd.
