Quotes by Andre Agassi

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“ 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-

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.

One of the things I love most about tennis is the humility it teaches you.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

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

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

Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything. Real feeling, true happiness, real joy, they can't get through that fog.

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.

What you feel doesn't matter in the end; it's what you do that makes you brave.

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

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

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

Sometimes, you need to get angry to get things done.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work.

When you find the moment you are no longer prepared to tolerate what you are feeling, change happens.

The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn't say is what it is I have found.

Don't count me out just yet.

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.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

Image is everything.

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