Andre Agassi Quotes - Page 2

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

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 feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

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. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

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.

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

No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.

Tennis is the loneliest sport.

To be inspired - that's the secret.

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.

There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired.

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.

Big dreams are so damn tiring.

Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.

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

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.

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.

Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport.

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.

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.

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

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