Andre Agassi Quotes About Tennis

Quotes about: Tennis

• 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, Inspiring, Sports

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2016

• Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

  Andre Agassi

  Hard Work, Tennis, Grind

• 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

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Jan 14, 2015

• 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

  Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.10, Vintage

• 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

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.365, Vintage

• 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

  Sports, Wrestling, Winning

• 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

• Being number two sucks.

  Andre Agassi

  Motivation, Two, Numbers

• 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

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.378, Vintage

• 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

  Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.11, Vintage

• 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

  "Sucess isn't all it's cracked up to be" by Lousie France, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2004.

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

  Andre Agassi

  Success, Winning, Tennis

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

  Andre Agassi

  Prize Money, Perspective, Tennis

• My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

  Andre Agassi

  Tennis, Shields, Results

• 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

  Sports, Failure, Loss

  FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Feb 25, 2015

• 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

• Tennis is the loneliest sport.

  Andre Agassi

  Sports, Tennis

  "Celebrating 2,000 Shows on PBS". Interview, www.pbs.org. May 24, 2013.

• 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

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.3, Vintage

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

  Andre Agassi

  Tennis, Tears, Fit

  "Why Does America Suck at Tennis?". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. August 29, 2011.

• 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

• 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.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Opposites, Games

• 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, Focus

• 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

  Sports, Dad, Believe

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