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Topic

Sport, memoirs.

About the book

Andre Agassi was and remains one of the brightest stars of tennis. During his career, he won 60 tournaments, became the world number one and Olympic champion. However, his main enemy was not his opponent on the court, but himself. A world champion who hated tennis. No one asked him if he wanted to be an athlete. His father practically pushed him onto the court, forcing him to perfect his shots from an early age. He felt miserable and at the same time, tournament after tournament, he was winning the title of absolute champion."

Who is the book for

The book is for anyone interested in sports and biographies of strong personalities in general.

Why this book

In his candid biography, Agassi tells about his difficult relationship with his father, who both terrified him and trained him to be a winner, about his rebellious actions in life and on the court, about his daily struggle with the physical pain of constant training and about his attitude to the game that has become the meaning of his life.

Reviews

This is perhaps one of the best sports autobiographies of all time.

— Time

A sincere, meaningful and deep autobiography; an incredible story about a lost childhood, chaotic growing up and finding yourself.

— Washington Post

Quotes

About the language of tennis

The language of tennis is the language of life. Advantage, grip, stroke, serve, error.

About the career finale

The career finale is no different from the match finale. There is only one goal - to reach that cherished finish line, to feel the magnetic force. As you approach that line, the magnetic force begins to attract you, to help you. But as soon as you feel it, another force, just as powerful, starts to act on you, but this force repels you instead. It's hard to explain, these two opposing forces, these contradictory energies, but they do exist. I know this for sure, because all my life I have been in search of the first, in an eternal struggle with the second, and sometimes I was hanging between them, and I was thrown back and forth like a tennis ball.

About playing tennis

Tennis is a terribly lonely game. Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and even they have at least an assistant and a manager. A boxer at least has some kind of contact with his opponent. In tennis, you meet your enemy face to face, exchange blows with him, but you don't touch him, you don't talk to him - you don't talk to anyone at all.