Top 90 Andre Agassi Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Andre Agassi

2. “If you don’t practice you don’t deserve to win.”

— Andre Agassi

3. “Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work.”

— Andre Agassi

4. “Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love – the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.”

— Andre Agassi

5. “All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.”

— Andre Agassi

6. “A great coach can lead you to a place where you don’t need him any more.”

— Andre Agassi

7. “I can live with losing, I can’t live without taking my chance.”

— Andre Agassi

8. “Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we’re here. To make each other feel safe.”

— Andre Agassi

9. “It’s easier to live with disappointment than regret.”

— Andre Agassi

10. “The best predictor of future events is probably past events.”

— Andre Agassi

11. “Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”

— Andre Agassi

12. “To be inspired – that’s the secret.”

— Andre Agassi

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

— Andre Agassi

14. “What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.”

— Andre Agassi

15. “Control what you can control.”

— Andre Agassi

16. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

17. “Being number two sucks.”

— Andre Agassi

18. “This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.”

— Andre Agassi

19. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

20. “How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.”

— Andre Agassi

21. “I’ve been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.”

— Andre Agassi

22. “A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it’ll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.”

— Andre Agassi

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23. “If I’ve learned nothing else, it’s that time and practice equal achievement.”

— Andre Agassi

24. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

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

— Andre Agassi

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26. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

27. “I envy Pete Sampras’s dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.”

— Andre Agassi

28. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

29. “There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired...”

— Andre Agassi

30. “Tennis is the loneliest sport.”

— Andre Agassi

31. “Success doesn’t always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.”

— Andre Agassi

32. “Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.”

— Andre Agassi

33. “You don’t cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.”

— Andre Agassi

34. “Big dreams are so damn tiring.”

— Andre Agassi

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— Andre Agassi

36. “There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That’s where you’re going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.”

— Andre Agassi

37. “A win doesn’t feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn’t last as long as the bad. Not even close.”

— Andre Agassi

38. “My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.”

— Andre Agassi

39. “Pride is bad, stress is good. I don’t want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.”

— Andre Agassi

40. “Walking to the net, I’m certain that I’ve lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the man who is fated to play Agassi to his Sampras. Though I don’t mention Pete by name, I have him uppermost in my mind when I tell reporters: It’s real simple. Most people have weaknesses. Federer has none.”

— Andre Agassi

41. “It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it’s easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.”

— Andre Agassi

42. “You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.”

— Andre Agassi

43. “Now that I’ve won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn’t feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn’t last long as the bad. Not even close.”

— Andre Agassi

44. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

45. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

46. “We’re in a fight, and you can count on me until the last man is standing. Somewhere up there is a star with your name on it. I might not be able to help you find it, but I’ve got pretty strong shoulders, and you can stand on my shoulders while you’re looking for that star. You hear? For as long as you want. Stand on my shoulders and reach, man. Reach.”

— Andre Agassi

47. “Well, I actually tell my son that I don’t have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He’s five years old.”

— Andre Agassi

48. “I’ve internalized my father- his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day on, I can do it all by myself.”

— Andre Agassi

49. “I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am – if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.”

— Andre Agassi

50. “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.”

— Andre Agassi