Andre Agassi famous quotes

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
-- Andre Agassi

#Motivational Sports #Winning #Practice

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
-- Andre Agassi

#Inspirational #Sports #Athlete

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work
-- Andre Agassi

#Hard Work #Tennis #Substitutes

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.
-- Andre Agassi

#Tired #Stuff #Sides

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.
-- Andre Agassi

#Hair #Opponents #Feels

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

#Fall #Booing #Minutes

There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.
-- Andre Agassi

#Inspirational #Strong #Talking

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.
-- Andre Agassi

#Inspirational #Practice #Achievement

It's no accident, I think, that 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. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.
-- Andre Agassi

#Thinking #Games #Choices

Big dreams are so damn tiring.
-- Andre Agassi

#Dream #Tire #Bigs

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.
-- Andre Agassi

#Tennis #Everyday #Faults

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

#Sports #Fighting #Answers

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
-- Andre Agassi

#Sports #Play #Tennis

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.
-- Andre Agassi

#Mean #Tennis #Peers

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

#Running #Long #Tennis

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

#Wrestling #Winning #Needs

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

#Winning #Thinking #Play

Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.
-- Andre Agassi

#Hate #Feet #Knees

You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
-- Andre Agassi

#Cheating #Cheat

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.
-- Andre Agassi

#Motivational #Helping Others #Perfection

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

#Motivational #Sports #Hard Work

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.
-- Andre Agassi

#Helping Others #Perfection #Collaboration

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.
-- Andre Agassi

#Trophies #Strive #Form

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

#Challenges #Overcoming #Faces

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

#Life #Jobs #Regret

Being number two sucks.
-- Andre Agassi

#Motivation #Two #Numbers

There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired..
-- Andre Agassi

#Tired #Waiting #Waiting For You

You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together.
-- Andre Agassi

#Sports #Thinking #Games

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

#Stress #Pride #Want

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
-- Andre Agassi

#Mean #Thinking #Roger

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

#Sex #Night #Tennis

You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.
-- Andre Agassi

#Business #Believe #Blood

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.
-- Andre Agassi

#Tennis #Shields #Results

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

#Perspective #Tennis #Feelings

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

#Sports #Athlete #Player

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.
-- Andre Agassi

#Sports #Years #Bags

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
-- Andre Agassi

#Past #Perspective

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

#Loyalty #Distance #Long

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

#Years #People #World

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

#Father #School #Order

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

#Peers #Applause #Persons

The most animated talks we have are about...things
-- Andre Agassi

#Animated

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.
-- Andre Agassi

#Retirement #Caring #Wake Up

Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.
-- Andre Agassi

#Perfect #Balls #Hitting

It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.
-- Andre Agassi

#Sports #Team #Mean

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

#Winning #Tennis

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.
-- Andre Agassi

#Believe #Son #Hair

I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.
-- Andre Agassi

#Losing #Chance

The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn't say is what it is I have found. Over the last 21 years, I have found loyalty. You have pulled for me on the court and also in life. I found inspiration. You have willed me to succeed, sometimes even in my lowest moments, and I've found generosity. You have given me your shoulders to stand on to reach for my dreams, dreams I could never have reached without you.
-- Andre Agassi

#Thank You #Loyalty #Dream

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

#Sports #Long #Giving

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.
-- Andre Agassi

#Sports #Thinking #Player

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

#Matter #Life Is #Ideal Life

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.
-- Andre Agassi

#Dream #Lovely #Awake

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.
-- Andre Agassi

#Brave #Matter #Ends

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

#Loss #Winning #Long

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

#Thinking

To be inspired - that's the secret.
-- Andre Agassi

#Secret #Inspired

Tennis is the loneliest sport
-- Andre Agassi

#Sports #Tennis

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.
-- Andre Agassi

#Sports #Kings #Years

I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
-- Andre Agassi

#Sports #Home

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
-- Andre Agassi

#Baby #Thinking #Bucks

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

#Thinking #Careers #Appreciate

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

#Sports #Challenges #Desire

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-- Andre Agassi

#Offering #Luxury #Vision

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

#Believe #Winning #Mind

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

#Winning #Thinking #Tennis

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.
-- Andre Agassi

#Sports #Distance #Believe

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

#Years #Fans #Enjoy

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

#Girl #Children #Son

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

#Men #Islands #Games

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

#Action #Moments #Punk

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

#Discovery #Finding Yourself #Sometimes

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

#Dad #Believe #Tennis

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

#People #Tennis #Want

I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.
-- Andre Agassi

#Hate #Passion #Dark

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

#Grace #Being The Best #Granted

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

#Hurt #Mean #Fighting

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

#Tennis #Vehicle

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

#Sports #Morning #People