Andre Agassi Quotes
( Photo credit: Art Seitz ©2010 )
March 20, 2010: "The joke fell flat and I'm sorry. My hope was that the night was still enjoyable. My whole book is about living and learning, and I guess you never frickin' stop."
— Andre Agassi, apologized for baiting and badgering Pete Sampras about purportedly being a cheap tipper, during a "Hit for Haiti" fundraising exhibition at Indian Wells on ESPN.com.
December 16 , 2009: "Anyone who starts their answer with, 'I haven't read the book, but . . .', I hope that they would read it all and then speak. To Rafael Nadal, Marat Safin, Martina Navratilova and Roger Federer, I would say that if they do that and they still have the same opinion of me, I would be sad and disappointed."
— Andre Agassi, when asked about big-name players who condemned him after he admitted in OPEN: An Autobiography that he had lied to the ATP tribunal in 1997 about taking drugs to escape a ban that could have cost him his career, in The Times (UK).
September 1, 2006: "I feel like I've been
living a dream for 21 years, and tonight was just another
example."
- Andre Agassi,
36, after his sensational 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 7-5 victory
over 8th-seeded Marcos Baghdatis, 21, in a crowd-thrilling
3-hour, 48-minute marathon at the U.S. Open.
March 27, 2005:
"This sport has given me so much that my hope would be to give back as much as I can for as long as I can."
— Andre Agassi, six-time champion
and the oldest player in the tournament at almost
35, before the start of the Nasdaq-100 Open, a tournament
he first played as a 16-year-old in 1987.
"I am really kind of sad. This tournament has offered me and my life so much. It is a shame that I didn't respect it a little earlier."
-Andre Agassi, who had skipped Wimbledon from 1988 to 1990, after he won The Championships in 1992
"I could drink Jack Daniels without stopping. In the [Bollettieri] Academy, it was tougher to get away with, but I enjoyed it because you weren't supposed to. I smoked pot, oh sure."
-Andre Agassi (1991)
"My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields."
-Slump-ridden Andre Agassi, whose marriage to actress Shields ended in divorce in 1999
"MMy father will be on his deathbed, and he’ll teach a parrot to say, ‘Andre, work on your serve,’ and then he’ll die a happy man."
- Andre on his father Emmanuel (Mike) who was so obsessed with Andre’s becoming a champion that when Andre was an infant, he hung a makeshift mobile of tennis balls over his crib.
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