Quotes from Andre Agassi

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.

What you feel doesn't matter in the end; it's what you do that makes you brave.

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.

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

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

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

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

To be inspired - that's the secret.

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

Big dreams, are so damn tiring.

This is why we're here. To fight through the pain and, when possible, to relieve the pain of others. So simple. So hard to see.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

Tennis is the loneliest sport

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

How beautiful to dream. But dreams, I tell Gil, in one of our quiet moments are so damned tiring. He laughs. I can't promise you that you won't be tired, he says. But please know this. 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.

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

Control what you can control.

I can't promise you that you won't be tired, he says. But please know this. 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.