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“Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.”
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“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”
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“There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.”
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“This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.”
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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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“I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.”
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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.”
Source : Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.378, Vintage
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“It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.”
Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.”
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“Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.”
Source : B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press
