Jimmy Connors Quotes

Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

I start the day with the intention of doing 4,000 sit-ups but then have to work.

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

I say to those people who are desperately trying to get healthy, in those moments where you feel like you can't go any further, you can.

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

A setback is a setup for a comeback.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

I got a bit down, depressed and fat, but I needed to be out of the game to realise I need boxing.

Where you have a little setback or you are out of the team you're considered a different player but you know you will come out of the other side of it.

Well, we're on a never-ending quest to slim down. It's just very difficult for us.

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Everyone crashes Some get back on Some don't Some can't.

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

Exercise teaches you the pleasure of discipline.

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

If you don't run, you rust.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.