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Andre Agassi QUOTES

Andre Agassi QUOTES

1 " It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

2 " Tennis is the loneliest sport "

― Andre Agassi

3 " There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

4 " I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself. "

― Andre Agassi

5 " Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.... "

― Andre Agassi , Open

6 " Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

7 " Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

8 " Control what you can control. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

9 " Given all that lies beyond my
control, I obsess about the few things I can control "

― Andre Agassi , Open

10 " The most animated talks we have are about…things "

― Andre Agassi , Open

11 " I address the trophy and the warped reflection: All the pain and suffering you've caused me. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

12 " Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the man who is fated to play Agassi to his Sampras. Though I don't mention Pete by name, I have him uppermost in my mind when I tell reporters: It's real simple. Most people have weaknesses. Federer has none. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

13 " I find it surreal, then perfectly normal. I'm struck by how fast the surreal becomes the norm. I marvel at how unexciting it is to be famous, how mundane famous people are. They're confused, uncertain, insecure, and often hate what they do. It's something we always hear - like that old adage that money can't buy happiness-but we never believe it until we see it ourselves. Seeing it in 1992 brings me a new measure of confidence. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

14 " I've been let in on a dirty little secret: winning changes nothing. Now that I've won a slam, I know something that very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last as long as the bad. Not even close. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

15 " A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi Graf), I feel her subtleties. It's like touching her, though we're forty feet apart. Every forehand is foreplay. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

16 " Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

17 " Qué lindo es sonar despierto, he says. How lovely it is to dream while you are awake. Dream while you are awake, Andre. Anybody can dream while they're asleep, but you need to dream all the time, and say your dreams out loud, and believe in them.
In other words, when in the final of a slam, I must dream. I must play to win. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

18 " I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

19 " Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe. "

― Andre Agassi , Open

20 " Many of you, I'm sure, don't like your jobs. But imagine if someone told you right now that your story about me would be your last. After this, you'll never be able to write another word for as long as you live. How would you feel? "

― Andre Agassi , Open