Andre Agassi Quotes
( Photo credit: Art Seitz ©2010 )
August 4, 2011: "First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport and made it better. I believe, with every generation, the sport has improved. Certainly, in the men’s game, that has been the case. I think that I played Pete [Sampras] at his best, I played Roger [Federer] at his best.… I believe wholeheartedly that Roger and [Rafael] Nadal have pushed the game much further than myself or Pete ever did. Their options on the tennis court are considerably more than ours."
— Andre Agassi , with high praise for 21st century superstars Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
January 8, 2011: "Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport."
— Andre Agassi calling the rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal "more compelling" than the one he had with Pete Sampras.
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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