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Andre Agassi (27)

Birth:	29th April, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Tennis Player

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Today's Anniversary - 21st May

Births

• 1958 - Tom Feeney
• 1957 - Edward Ernest Reinhold Jr.
• 1944 - Mary Robinson
• 1914 - Romain Gary
• 1904 - Fats Waller

Deaths

• 1995 - Les Aspin
• 2000 - John Gielgud
• 1973 - Vaughn Monroe
• 1926 - Ronald Firbank
• 1952 - John Garfield

• I’ve been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

  Andre Agassi

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• I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to… It’s a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it’s flown by; you can’t believe you’ve done it all that time… Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you’ve sort of traveled.

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• 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.

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• I’m going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• You don’t cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Sometimes it’s just harder to remind yourself about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it… Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you’re not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.

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• I’m going to go down swinging… I’m sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

  Andre Agassi