Top 100 Agassi Quotes
#1. Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the game. He was probably the best player I ever played over my career. There's a list of players that were tough, but Andre, certainly, he was the most unique.
Pete Sampras
#2. I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match.
Greg Garber
#3. You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.
Marat Safin
#4. I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.
Brad Gilbert
#5. I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.
Emeril Lagasse
#6. People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world ... have you thought about polo?'
Rob Schneider
#7. Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.
Elvis Stojko
#8. There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.
Guy Forget
#9. There is nuance now, subtext, body language, and pheromones.
Andre Agassi
#10. There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired..
Andre Agassi
#11. If Pete's (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he's a boy, my son will defeat him.
Andre Agassi
#12. Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.
Andre Agassi
#13. No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.
Andre Agassi
#14. Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.
Andre Agassi
#15. It's easier to live with disappointment than regret.
Andre Agassi
#16. Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Andre Agassi
#17. What you feel doesn't matter in the end; it's what you do that makes you brave.
Andre Agassi
#18. Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time ... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.
Andre Agassi
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Andre Agassi
#20. My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.
Andre Agassi
#21. The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock ... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
Andre Agassi
#22. 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.
Andre Agassi
#23. A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.
Andre Agassi
#24. Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.
Andre Agassi
#25. I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to ... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
Andre Agassi
#26. I tell the players: You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than that applause-from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.
Andre Agassi
#27. Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.
Andre Agassi
#28. Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.
Andre Agassi
#30. You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.
Shai Agassi
#31. I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.
Shai Agassi
#32. 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.
Andre Agassi
#33. I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.
Shai Agassi
#34. I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.
Andre Agassi
#35. I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.
Andre Agassi
#36. Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.
Andre Agassi
#37. That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers
Andre Agassi
#38. Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.
Andre Agassi
#39. Feeling depressed after a loss is one thing, but feeling depressed about nothing, about life in general, is another thing altogether.
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly
Andre Agassi
#40. 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.
Andre Agassi
#41. I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.
Andre Agassi
#42. I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.
Andre Agassi
#43. Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.
Andre Agassi
#44. I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.
Andre Agassi
#45. I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.
Andre Agassi
#46. Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.
Andre Agassi
#47. It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.
Andre Agassi
#48. 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.
Andre Agassi
#49. 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.
Andre Agassi
#50. 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
#51. I address the trophy and the warped reflection: All the pain and suffering you've caused me.
Andre Agassi
#52. 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.
Andre Agassi
#53. I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
Andre Agassi
#54. There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.
Andre Agassi
#56. My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn't make peace solely through technological inventions.
Shai Agassi
#57. 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.
Andre Agassi
#59. When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do.
Shai Agassi
#60. I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
Andre Agassi
#61. My father says that if I hit 2,500 balls each day, I'll hit 17,500 balls each week, and at the end of one year I'll have hit nearly one million balls. He believes in math. Numbers, he says, don't lie. A child who hits one million balls each year will be unbeatable.
Andre Agassi
#62. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.
Andre Agassi
#63. I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.
Andre Agassi
#64. Maybe I don't know yet how to be happy and play well at the same time.
Andre Agassi
#65. This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can.
Andre Agassi
#66. I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.
Andre Agassi
#67. Gil's philosophy in all things is to seek the pain, woo the pain, recognize that pain is life. If you're heartbroken, Gil says, don't hide from it. Wallow in it. We hurt, he says, so let's hurt.
Andre Agassi
#68. 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
#69. Losing to Pete has caused me enormous pain, but in the long run it's also made me more resilient. If I'd beaten Pete more often, or if he'd come along in a different generation, I'd have a better record, and I might go down as a better player, but I'd be less.
Andre Agassi
#70. My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.
Andre Agassi
#71. We talk about things. We talk about nothing.
Andre Agassi
#72. The most animated talks we have are about ... things
Andre Agassi
#73. 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.
Andre Agassi
#74. Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that.
Andre Agassi
#75. 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.
Andre Agassi
#76. We start the year on the other side of the world, at the Australian Open, and then just chase the sun.
Andre Agassi
#77. All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.
Andre Agassi
#78. If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
Andre Agassi
#79. The best predictor of future events is probably past events.
Andre Agassi
#80. Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it ... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.
Andre Agassi
#81. Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
Andre Agassi
#82. I keep begging myself to stop, and I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I actually do, feels like the core of my life
Andre Agassi
#83. The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.
Shai Agassi
#84. Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.
Shai Agassi
#85. Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.
Andre Agassi
#86. He thinks it's his day, and when you think it's your day, it usually is.
Andre Agassi
#87. Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.
Andre Agassi
#88. 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
#89. You don't have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy.
Andre Agassi
#90. Now that I've won a slam, I know something 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 long as the bad. Not even close.
Andre Agassi
#91. I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.
Andre Agassi
#92. If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.
Andre Agassi
#93. You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
Andre Agassi
#94. Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.
Andre Agassi
#95. What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Andre Agassi
#96. If you're ranked number one in the world it's because you've earned it, and I think the only way to really get there is to have that ability and to have it nurtured in a very competitive environment at an early age.
Andre Agassi
#97. 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.
Andre Agassi
#98. Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.
Shai Agassi
#99. And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago.
Andre Agassi
#100. I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Andre Agassi
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