Andre Agassi Quotes

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake. Dream while you’re awake, Andre. Anybody can dream while they’re asleep, but you need to dream all the time, and say our dreams out loud, and believe in them.

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

I keep begging myself to stop, and I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I actually do, feels like the core of my life

Feeling depressed after a loss is one thing, but feeling depressed about nothing, about life in general, is another thing altogether.

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly

You can't ask my father anything directly. So I file it away with all the other things I don't know about my parents - permanently missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is me.

The worse I do in school, the more I rebel. I drink, I smoke pot, I act like an ass. I’m dimly aware of the inverse ratio between my grades and my rebellion, but I don’t dwell on it. I prefer Nick’s theory. He says I don’t do well in school because I have a hard-on for the world. It might be the only thing he’s ever said about me that’s halfway accurate. (He typically describes me as a cocky showboater who seeks the limelight. Even my father knows me better than that.) My general demeanor does feel like a hard-on — violent, involuntary, unstoppable — and so I accept it as I accept the many changes in my body.

I address the trophy and the warped reflection: All the pain and suffering you've caused me.

Ciò che rende speciale qualcosa non è quel che si vince, ma quel che senti di poter perdere.

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

some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You’re a thermostat. You don’t register the temperature in a room, you change it.

My father says that if I hit 2,500 balls each day, I’ll hit 17,500 balls each week, and at the end of one year I’ll have hit nearly one million balls. He believes in math. Numbers, he says, don’t lie. A child who hits one million balls each year will be unbeatable.

Колко е хубаво да имаш прекрасен сън наяве.

Не проумявам удоволствието, което майка ми намира в реденето на пъзели. Целият този разпарчетосан хаос, цялата бъркотия, кат това може да успокоява?

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

ver trabajar a un artesano me calma, me ancla en la tierra, me inspira. Me recuerda la extraordinaria importancia que en este mundo tiene el trabajo bien hecho.