“Life is a tennis match between polar opposites. To make each other feel safe.” ― Andre Agassi This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning.
This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it’s all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. “It’s no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Top 28 best Quotes From “Open” by Andre Agassi Agassi writes candidly about his early success and his uncomfortable relationship with fame, his marriage to Brooke Shields, his growing interest in philanthropy, and-described in haunting, point-by-point detail-the highs and lows of his celebrated career.” ( Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi – #Ad) But as he reveals in this searching autobiography, off the court he was often unhappy and confused, unfulfilled by his great achievements in a sport he had come to resent. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age of twenty-two Agassi had won the first of his eight grand slams and achieved wealth, celebrity, and the game’s highest honors. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib.
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