There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired.. - Andre Agassi

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

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.

It's no accident, I think, that 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.