Jimmy Connors Against The World
February, 1975
Jimmy Connors had won Wimbledon in July, stomping his elders, bludgeoning his contemporaries, alienating virtually everyone in tennis and the rest of the world, for that matter, so he could say that. And that statement is a measure of the arrogance, confidence and guts that make Connors (A) possibly the best tennis player in the world and (B) one of the cockiest superstars in sports today. It is the kind of line Connors has learned from his manager and political mentor, Bill Riordan, a tennis ag...
