"I open my eyes and I don't know where I am or who I am. Not all that unusual. I've spent half my life not knowing. Still, this feels different. This confusion is more frightening, more total. I look u..."

"doesn't want to retire. My body has already retired. My body has moved to Florida and bought a condo. So, I've been negotiating with my body, asking it to come out of retirement for a few hours here a..."

"athletes. I go to the bathroom and look in the mirror. I stare at my face. A face totally different from the one with which I started, but also different from the one I saw last year in this same mirr..."

"talking to yourself is actually you come up with a lot of good ideas this way. And for Agassi, it was no different. For him, a lot of this selft talk also happens in the shower. He says tennis is the ..."

"autobiography where you have somebody that literally becomes the person that's the best in the world at what he does. And he hates the thing that he does. And you could never possibly understand that ..."

"opposite of doing. I often think about how I can stop thinking. I wonder if my father yells at me to stop thinking because he knows I'm a thinker by nature. And so, let me pause right there. I think t..."

"Such moments and many more come to mind whenever I think about telling my father that I don't want to play tennis. Besides loving my father and wanting to please him, I don't want to upset him. I don'..."

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"plays countless imaginary matches. And this is when it hits you when you're reading the book. He's tormenting his son to live out his own unfulfilled dreams. And Andre realizes that he has to do this ..."

"away than lose to his son. And so now he's 10 years old. He loses a tournament. He says, "How can losing hurt so much? How can anything hurt so much?" I walk off the court wishing I were dead. He gets..."

"have to take the pills, if he makes you take them, play a bad match. Tank. Then, as you come off the court, tell him you were shaking so bad that you couldn't concentrate. Okay, Philly, but what are t..."

"applied to me. And so he's playing all these tournaments. He's winning them or he's getting to the final. And they offer him money. And so far, up until this point, he hasn't accepted any of the money..."

"life story, he's sharing and then analyzing what the hell is going on in his head. So again, when you read one of the benefits of reading biographies and autobiographies, these are life stories, but y..."

"people trying to be like Andre Agassi since I don't want to be Andre Agassi. There's a story in the book later on where he goes out one night, gets completely drunk, and is completely hung over the ne..."

"where friends gather. He doesn't have any answers. He says he just happens to have read the Bible a few dozen times front to back and has some observations to share. JP's church is the first one where..."

"do nothing. He knows there's nothing to say, nothing to do, but to wait for this fire to burn out. That's a great line and a great way to describe some of these emotions that are uncontrollable. You j..."

"be said. I don't understand it myself. I can only tell him how it is. And then Gil thinks about this for a while. And sometime later, he passes along some words that his mother would tell him as piece..."

"believe the emotion pouring out of me. After the match, trembling, I dial my father in Vegas. Pops, it's me. Can you hear me? What did you think? Silence. Pops, you had no business losing that fourth ..."

"guy named Brad Gilbert, who's also a professional tennis player. At the time, Agassi is looking for a new coach. And his friend says, "Hey, why don't you check out this guy? He's just written a book a..."

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"way you feel about yourself to a stranger that doesn't have your best interest in heart. Obviously, how you feel about yourself is most important. And if you do need an outside perspective, you know, ..."

"time. If you do it all the time, you get really good at it. That's exactly the story of Pete. It's very different from, you know, the struggles of Agassi. This is the first time that Agassy gets to th..."

"groans about the cost of higher education. He doesn't know how he's going to make it. Days later, I talk to my manager and ask him to put aside a nest egg of Nike stock in Frankie's name. The next tim..."

"about myself that is deeply unfulfilling when I'm playing for something bigger later in his life. He winds up marrying divorcing Brook Shields, gets married to Stephie Graph. He start he has two kids...."

"you're at rest. You know, you're not going anywhere for a while. So, he feels he has no control over his professional life and at the very same time he feels he has no control over his personal life. ..."

"place." He pulls out of all the tournaments. His wife goes to work in Los Angeles. Andre goes back to Vegas, hangs out with his assistant and friend Slim, and they just spend their days getting high. ..."

"follows every personal resolution. I won't fail this time. I can't because it's change now or change never. The idea of stagnating, of remaining this Andre for the rest of my life, that's what I find ..."

"They stare and then dutifully write my insane prediction in their notebooks. And so, even though he's in the process of rebuilding himself, rebuilding his life, he still has this these these times of ..."

"would you know? You can't judge how he's playing. You're so confused out there. So blind with panic. I'm surprised you can even see him. Too good. You're making him look good. Just start letting go. I..."