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Jimmy Connors is a working-man's hero, a people's champ who could tear the cover off a tennis ball, as he tore the cover from the country-club gentility of his sport. A renegade from the wrong aspect of the tracks, Connors broke the rules with a radically aggressive style of play and bad-boy antics that flipped his complements into prizefights. In 1974 together, he received 95 out of 99 complements, all of them while using the same white pants he cleaned in the sink of his hotel bath rooms. Though he lived the rock star life from tennis, his long lasting determination to his art gained him eight Grand Slam singles titles and retained him among the most notable ten best players on the planet for sixteen straight years - five at number one. In The Outsider, Connors says the complete, uncensored account of his life and profession, preparing the record in a straight line about his formidable mother, Gloria; his very open public relationship with America's sweetheart Chris Evert; his famous opponents, including Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Arthur Ashe, Ivan Lendl, and Fishing rod Laver; his irrepressible co-conspirators Ilie Nastase and Vitas Gerulaitis; and his young nemesis Andre Agassi. Connors discloses how his issues with obsessive-compulsive disorder, dyslexia, gaming, and women at various times threatened to derail his profession and his long-lasting relationship to Playboy Playmate Patti McGuire. Presiding over an era that saw tennis attract a fresh breed of excited lovers - from cops to tycoons - Connors changed the game permanently along with his two-handed backhand, his two-fisted lifestyle, and his epic rivalries. The Outsider is a grand slam of an memoir written by a man once again at the top of his game - as feisty, unvarnished, and defiant as ever before.

Category: Tennis

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Publisher	HarperAudio
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2013-05
Author	Jimmy Connors

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