Andre Agassi Quotes

“If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.”

“Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.”

“Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work.”

“All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.”

“I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.”

“It's easier to live with disappointment than regret.”

“Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”

“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.”

“It's easy to think it was an attempt for me to stand out when truly in hindsight it was an attempt for me to hide. There's no better way to hide than to wear a mullet or a Mohawk or attract attention somewhere else.”

“He was a strength trainer in my life, but he was more than that; he was a soul trainer. He was a lifeguard for me.”

“It's not the stories of my life that surprise me. I know the stories. But what's the story of your life, what does it really mean, what were you really feeling, what's the truth that you've been searching about yourself?”

“It's no accident that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love. The lessons of tennis are the lessons of maturity.”

“I made a commitment to myself that I would make the most of my second chance, that I would atone for this part of my life in a way that will be real every day.”

“I played tennis for all the wrong reasons throughout my life, and different reasons throughout it, but all the wrong ones. At first it was my father, then it was me — in order to get out of this tennis camp the only way out was to really succeed.”

“I play tennis for a living, even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, and always have. As this last piece of identity falls into place, I slide to my knees and in a whisper I say: Please let this be over. Then: I'm not ready for it to be over.”

“I'd rather have the wrong game plan and totally commit to it than have the right game plan but hesitate or doubt it, because that's when things go wrong.”