The Outsider: A Memoir (40 page)

With Vitas and Patti on a night out in Paris. Wherever we went with Vitas, he was the life of the party. We miss him every day.

Mug shot, 2008. Finally, a good picture. Inmate 00001.
(Courtesy of Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office)

We call Sophie our “special child” even though she is now a senior citizen—just like her dad.

Me and my shrinks at the beach. Those therapy sessions were lifesaving, especially after I retired from tennis and didn’t know what to do with myself. Nothing could calm me more than a long walk with the dogs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JIMMY CONNORS won a record 109 men’s singles titles (and 15 doubles titles) from 1972 to 1989. He was ranked the world’s number one player for five consecutive years and won a total of 10 Grand Slams. In 1998, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and is arguably one of the top tennis players of all time. Originally from East St. Louis, he lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his family.

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Credits

Cover design by Archie Ferguson

Front cover photograph by Walter Iooss

All photographs are courtesy of the author unless otherwise indicated.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Art Seitz for his photographs included in the Photographs section.

Title page photograph and About the Author photograph by Brett Connors.

Opening photograph of Jimmy Connors on his back © Michael Cole/Corbis.

Copyright

THE OUTSIDER.
Copyright © 2013 by Jimmy Connors. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

ISBN: 978-0-06-124299-1

EPUB Edition MAY 2013 ISBN 9780062119629

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