Andre Agassi Quotes
I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I would like to see America some day.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
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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.
