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

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Andre Agassi
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 29
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Tennis Player
Las Vegas
Nevada
Andre Kirk Agassi
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I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. That's going to feel great.
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I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
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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.
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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
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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.
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It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.
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In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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