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It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
Andre Agassi / Tennis Player
Focus
Thinking
Winning
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Even if it’s not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.
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Ideal Life
Life Is
Matter
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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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Dad
Sports
Believe
Looking Forward
Tennis
Life Best Dad
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Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.
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Sports
America
Tennis
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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.
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Challenges
Faces
Motivated
Obstacles
Overcoming
Plenty
Face
Been
Challenge
Hurdles
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You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.
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Mean
Peers
Tennis
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When you deal with somebody in the heat of battle, you see the best or the worst of them. So when you get through all that there is a great deal of respect.
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Battle
Heat
Worst
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You've got to believe you can win. But I believe respect for the fact that you can lose is what you always have to keep in mind so that nothing suprises you.
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Believe
Mind
Winning
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People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.
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Grandparent
People
Years
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I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.
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Booing
Fall
Minutes
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When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.
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Sports
Bags
Years
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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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Court
Discovery
Finding Yourself
Moments
Sometimes
Yourself Sometimes Find
Confrontational
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Hitting the ball has never been my issue, so I can literally not pick up a racquet for two months and hit the ball, really, really nicely. I mean movement's always an issue.
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Issues
Mean
Two
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Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer I can't refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.
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Charitable Work
Focus
Play
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Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.
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Everyday
Faults
Tennis
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There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw
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Mean
Roger
Thinking
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First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.
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Morning
Sports
People
Tennis
Good Morning Me
Awesome
First Of All
Morning Good Me
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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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Sports
Believe
Son
Believes
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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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Fighting
Hurt
Mean
Best World Me
Best World Fighting
Beat
Meant
Hurts
Out Here
Title
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I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.
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Age
Player
Successful
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Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.
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Play
Thinking
Winning
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Now that I've won a slam, I know something 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 long as the bad. Not even close.
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Failure
Sports
Loss
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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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Moments
Spectrum
Traveled
Time Believe Done
Flown
Overall
Strong Sense
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I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
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Sports
Answers
Fighting
Good Myself Day
Pretend
Won
Match
Maybe
Motivating
Question
Something Good
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No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.
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Sports
Athlete
Player
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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.
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Sports
Player
Thinking
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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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Loyalty
Distance
Long
Looks
Pillars
Life Time Long
Admired
Loyalties
Relationships
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If you're ranked number one in the world it's because you've earned it, and I think the only way to really get there is to have that ability and to have it nurtured in a very competitive environment at an early age.
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Age
Numbers
Thinking
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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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Appreciate
Careers
Profession
Thinking
Greatest Joys
Joys
Lens
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But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.
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Kings
Sports
Court
Hitting
Tennis
Years
Alan
Notice
Pros
Stayed
Tournament
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Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
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Motivational
Helping Others
Perfection
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My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches, and then they get money and popularity. For me it has been the reverse of everybody else. The exact opposite.
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Games
Opposites
Winning
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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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Sports
Mean
Team
End Of The Day Day Way
End Of The Day
Highs
Low
Tie
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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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Inspirational
Motivational
Sports
Committed
Grind
Hard
Hard Work
Prove
Sweating
Training
Time Work Myself
Back
Meant
Could
Working
Every Day
Still
Work Time Myself
Substitute
Put
Plain
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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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Sports
People
Tournaments
Years
World Me People
Bonded
Meant
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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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Millions
People
Tennis
Vehicle
Want
Learning Myself Always
Learning Myself Me
Discover
Millions Of People
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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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Chicago
Father
Moved
Order
School
Teeth
Tennis
Father Day Every Day
Woke
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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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Sports
Challenges
Desire
Harder
Responding
Physically
Presents
Remind
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A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it'll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.
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Age
Recovery
Strong
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You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together.
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Motivational
Sports
Athlete
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Luxury
Offering
Vision
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Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.
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Jobs
Life
Regret
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You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.
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Success
Business
Believe
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The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn't say is what it is I have found. Over the last 21 years, I have found loyalty. You have pulled for me on the court and also in life. I found inspiration. You have willed me to succeed, sometimes even in my lowest moments, and I've found generosity. You have given me your shoulders to stand on to reach for my dreams, dreams I could never have reached without you.
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Dream
Loyalty
Thank You
Inspiration
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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.
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Sports
Believe
Distance
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It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.
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Choices
Games
Thinking
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