his mother. >> don't come up on the ball so much, honey. out more. >> jimmy connors is one of the great effort players who ever played tennis. however, he did some things that sort of made you scratch your head as particularly off the court, and that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. >> my disappointment early on was he wouldn't join our players union, the atp. he was dyed in the wool blue color of east st. louis. it made no sense to me that he wouldn't do that. >> jimmy was a contrarian. didn't join the atp. arthur is president of the at p. jimmy didn't want to be part of the u.s. team in davis cup. that didn't sit well with arthur either. >> there simply never had been an american player who so consistently refused to play davis cup. i couldn't understand how any american player would not do that.