Andre Agassi Quotes About Tennis
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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.
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It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
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Tennis is the loneliest sport.
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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.
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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.
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My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.
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My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.
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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
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Being number two sucks.
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My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
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I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.
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I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.
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The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
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Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work
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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.
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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.
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Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.
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Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.
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Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.
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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.
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If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.
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I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.
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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.
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I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
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If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
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