Andre Agassi Quotes
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
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.
The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.
I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.
You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.
Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.
Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.
It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.
I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.
If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.
I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.
It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.
That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers
First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.
When you deal with somebody in the heat of battle, you see the best or the worst of them. So when you get through all that there is a great deal of respect.
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. That's going to feel great.
If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.
You've got to believe you can win. But I believe respect for the fact that you can lose is what you always have to keep in mind so that nothing suprises you.
When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.
