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Tennis Quotes by Andre Agassi

43 Tennis quotes by Andre Agassi

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Andre Agassi says that when he stops worrying about winning, his shots become faster and his mind steadier. He admits he plays tennis for a living even though he often hates the sport. He also notes that the scoreboard tells the truth, making tennis a very objective game.

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“I hate tennis.”

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Tennis is the loneliest sport

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My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

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I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

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Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

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Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

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

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Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis

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

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I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

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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…

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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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Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it…

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There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every…

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Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel…

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You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers.…

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“I tell the players: You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than…

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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…

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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…

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My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches,…

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“Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the…

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It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis…

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“Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's…

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“I've been let in on a dirty little secret: winning changes nothing. Now that I've won a slam, I know something that…

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First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have…

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It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

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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…

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If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.

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“...we start the year on the other side of the world, at the Australian Open, and then just chase the sun.”

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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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No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer.…

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“Freed from thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, stop feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions…

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“I've internalized my father- his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day…

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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…

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Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue…

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“A ball feels different off every player's racket-there are minute but concrete subtleties of force and spin. Now, hitting with her (Steffi…

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Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence,…

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You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life…

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If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

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

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

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

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

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…

“I keep begging myself to stop, and I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I…

“When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you’re doing? You’re chasing something that doesn’t exist. You’re…

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.

It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.