Jimmy Connors Quotes

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

Jimmy Connors

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• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Day

• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Good
  • Music
  • Sound

• I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Special

• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Man

• Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • People
  • Trust
  • Never

• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  

  Mac Davis
  • World
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Real
  • Words
  • Lies

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Beginning
  • Design
  • Jewelry

• I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Die

• We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Refugee

• Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Support

• We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

  

  Sallust
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Rule

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Comedy

• Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

  

  Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fall

• It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • God
  • Career
  • Struggle

• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It doesn't matter in MMA if you're a woman or a man. You're going to fight 5 rounds, 5 minutes per round. If they want a real world champion, then the fights should be 12 rounds, 3 minutes per round for a woman boxer and you'll weed out some of the world championship fighters.

  

  Bonnie Canino
  • Women
  • Champion
  • Fighters

• I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Women
  • Respect