Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassiis an American retired professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi had been called the greatest service returner in the history of the game. Described by the BBC upon his retirement as "perhaps the biggest worldwide star in the sport's history", Agassi...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth29 April 1970
CityLas Vegas, NV
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis
I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.
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.
I always felt tennis and winning was a byproduct of doing everything right.
To be inspired - that's the secret.
Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.
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.
I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.
You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
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.
This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.
Being number two sucks.