The Outsider: A Memoir
"An engrossing five-setter, with intense exchanges and no tiebreakers... Like the individualists Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Pete Rose and Chuck Berry, Connors was authentic. The book reflects that swagger." New York Times "Eye-poppingly indiscreet: The Outsider makes most sports autobiographies feel like very tepid affairs in comparison." Daily Mail "Exhilarating... served up at full pelt, as if Connors were charging at readers with his double-handed backhand, complete with sweaty grunts." Mail on Sunday "As spiky and uncompromising as you would hope... candid and funny." -- Marcus Berkmann Daily Mail, Sports Books of the Year "Kudos to Jimmy Connors for valiantly trying to argue in his autobiography, The Outsider, that the current spectacle of Roger Federer, Djokovic and Nadal - whose courtesy and dignity generally match the superlative quality of their play - has nothing on his own era of incontinent litigiousness, oncourt swearing, childish tantrums, umpire abuse, celebratory crotch-grabbing and mutual hatred between top players. Connors' book has the ring of honesty... a magnificent snapshot of his era." -- Ed Smith New Statesman--This text refers to an alternateHardcoveredition.