Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Andre Agassi - Page 2

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.

To be inspired - that's the secret.

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Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer I can't refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.

Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

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.

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

I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.

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.

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.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

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.

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.

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.

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

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.

People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.

First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men's game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.. I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours.

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.

If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

The most animated talks we have are about...things

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

The best predictor of future events is probably past events.

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

He thinks it's his day, and when you think it's your day, it usually is.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

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.

It's always been eclectic; you never know what you're going to get.

There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. That's going to feel great.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

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.

Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis.