Andre Agassi

“What you feel doesn't matter in the end. It's what you do that makes you brave.”

“An eight-year-old Andre Agassi plays this grown, Man. One of the greatest football players of all time and beats him.”

“Sure enough, at the Nationals, my father gives me a pill. Hold out your hand, he says. This will help you. Take it. He puts a pill in my palm. Tiny, white, and round.”

“I tell the tournament director I'll take the money. As the words leave my mouth, I feel a shelf of possibilities fall away. I don't know what those possibilities might be, but that's the point. I never will know. The man hands me a check, and as I walk out of …”

“Something that Andre Agassi has in common with a lot of the great entrepreneurs is they hate losing more than they love winning.”

“So he wears Oakley sunglasses to hide the fact that his eyes are bloodshot and he's hungover. He winds up winning. There's a great picture of him. It's put on the cover of a magazine. It sells a ton of Oakley sunglasses. And the founder of Oakley, without tell…”

“Winning changes nothing. Now that I've won a slam, I know something that very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad. And the good feeling doesn't last as long as the bad, not even close.”

“You don't have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy. Instead of you succeeding, make him fail. Better yet, let him fail. By trying for a perfect shot with every ball, you're stacking the odds against …”

“When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you're doing? You're chasing something that doesn't exist. You're making yourself miserable. Perfection? There's about five times a year when you wake up perfect, when you …”

“And I think when you do that, especially as a public figure, this guy's one of the most famous people on the planet. You're outsourcing the way you feel about yourself to a stranger that doesn't have your best interest at heart.”

“You know everything you need to know about people when you see their faces at the moment of your greatest triumph.”

“There was no former number one in the world playing these challenger tournaments that he starts again at the very, very bottom.”

“Well, we must also care for ourselves, which mean we must be careful in our decisions, careful in our relationships, careful in our statements. We must manage our lives carefully in order to avoid becoming victims.”