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What is The Outsider : a Memoir about?
Jimmy Connors is a working-man's hero, a people's champion who could tear thecover off a tennis ball, just as he tore the cover off the country-clubgentility of his sport. A renegade from the wrong side of the tracks, Connorsbroke the rules with a radically aggressive style of play and bad-boy anticsthat turned his matches into prizefights. In 1974 alone, he won 95 out of 99matches, all of them while wearing the same white shorts he washed in the sinkof his hotel bathrooms. Though he lived the rock star life away from tennis,his enduring dedication to his craft earned him eight Grand Slam singlestitles and kept him among the top ten best players in the world for sixteenstraight years—five at number one.In _The Outsider_ , Connors tells the complete, uncensored story of his lifeand career, setting the record straight about his formidable mother, Gloria;his very public romance with America's sweetheart Chris Evert; his famousopponents, including Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Arthur Ashe, Ivan Lendl, andRod Laver; his irrepressible co-conspirators Ilie Nastase and VitasGerulaitis; and his young nemesis Andre Agassi. Connors reveals how his issueswith obsessive-compulsive disorder, dyslexi
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- Author
- Connors, Jimmy
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061243004
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Sports, Anthropology, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.39 / 5 (728 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14