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When you deal with somebody in the heat of battle, you see the best or the worst of them. So when you get through all that there is a great deal of respect.

Andre Agassi

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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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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.
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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.
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It's always been eclectic you never know what you're going to get.
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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.
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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.
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I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
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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.
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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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I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.
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My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
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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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Hitting the ball has never been my issue, so I can literally not pick up a racquet for two months and hit the ball, really, really nicely. I mean movement's always an issue.
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The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
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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.
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How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.
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The best predictor of future events is probably past events.
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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.
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