Top 90 Andre Agassi Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Gil’s philosophy in all things is to seek the pain, woo the pain, recognize that pain is life. If you’re heartbroken, Gil says, don’t hide from it. Wallow in it. We hurt, he says, so let’s hurt.”

— Andre Agassi

52. “No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.”

— Andre Agassi

53. “No one ever asked me if I wanted to play tennis, let alone make it my life. My father decided long before I was born that I would be a professional tennis player.”

— Andre Agassi

54. “Hitting a ball dead perfect – the only peace.”

— Andre Agassi

55. “There’s no such thing as an open draw. At least for me – I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him – but for me there’s no such thing as an open draw.”

— Andre Agassi

56. “When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.”

— Andre Agassi

57. “I’m going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.”

— Andre Agassi

58. “I’ve been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.”

— Andre Agassi

59. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

60. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

61. “I slide to my knees and say, “Please let this be over.” Then, I’m not ready for it to be over.”

— Andre Agassi

62. “You don’t have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy.”

— Andre Agassi

63. “That’s the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers.”

— Andre Agassi

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

— Andre Agassi

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

— Andre Agassi

66. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

67. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

68. “Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it’s all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It’s our choice.”

— Andre Agassi

69. “Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it’s an offer I can’t refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.”

— Andre Agassi

70. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

71. “He thinks it’s his day, and when you think it’s your day, it usually is.”

— Andre Agassi

72. “My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.”

— Andre Agassi

73. “You know everything you need to know about people when you see their faces at the moments of your greatest triumph.”

— Andre Agassi

74. “I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent’s hair.”

— Andre Agassi

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

— Andre Agassi

76. “Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn’t grow with the size of the person – it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.”

— Andre Agassi

77. “Losing to Pete has caused me enormous pain, but in the long run it’s also made me more resilient. If I’d beaten Pete more often, or if he’d come along in a different generation, I’d have a better record, and I might go down as a better player, but I’d be less.”

— Andre Agassi

78. “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

79. “Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that.”

— Andre Agassi

80. “My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.”

— Andre Agassi

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

— Andre Agassi

82. “If you’re ranked number one in the world it’s because you’ve earned it, and I think the only way to really get there is to have that ability and to have it nurtured in a very competitive environment at an early age.”

— Andre Agassi

83. “Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself.”

— Andre Agassi

84. “Well, you know, I’ve bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.”

— Andre Agassi

85. “It’s always been eclectic; you never know what you’re going to get.”

— Andre Agassi

86. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

87. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

88. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

89. “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.”

— Andre Agassi

90. “I had my moments for sure but I wasn’t confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you’d find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.”

— Andre Agassi

91. “Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn’t lie.”

— Andre Agassi

92. “People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.”

— Andre Agassi

93. “That’s where you’re going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.”

— Andre Agassi

94. “There is a star up there with your name on it... reach man, reach.”

— Andre Agassi

95. “Also, now that I know roughly who I am, I want to close my eyes and hide from it.”

— Andre Agassi

96. “Figuring out your butterflies, deciphering what they say about the status of your mind and body, is the first step to making them work for you.”

— Andre Agassi

97. “The tennis bag is a lot like your heart – you have to know what’s in it at all times.”

— Andre Agassi

98. “I can’t dwell on tomorrow any more than I can dwell on yesterday.”

— Andre Agassi

99. “It might not be the right way to end our journey, but it’s the best way possible.”

— Andre Agassi