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For all those people who are once again writing off Andre Agassi, beware.
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We've been there before. It's tough, but Andre Agassi is a draw unlike any other.
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DOMINIC COBELLO
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HECTOR GARCIA
Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless you're the king.
JOSEPHINE HULL
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SONNY MEHTA
It's completely anonymous. There's no way for someone to get in touch with you unless you elect to h...
MATT STRAUSS
I believe he needs to do that a little more, as (Andre) Agassi did in the final - take some chances ...
PAT CASH
The simple fact is that no budget could have sensibly been prepared unless all the facts and figures...
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You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
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Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.
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All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say theres no one for you, But here is one
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When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI
When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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PETE GRANGER
You get very used to playing with a partner, and that carries through into playing at this level as ...
KAREN STUPPLES
Andre Agassi was my rival in the '90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the ga...
PETE SAMPRAS
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Oh, the bald look? A lot of questions why, and I have a bunch of fun stories to give people. The big...
LUKE JENSEN
Wins and losses just blur into one as you move around the world playing matches.
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RICK WARREN
Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.
SID WADDELL
You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.
MARAT SAFIN
Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your ca...
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You have to get to a mental state where you won't break. (Once you break), there's nothing you can d...
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Andre kind of cruises through the regular season and then turns it on around this time. He'll probab...
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No one can be you unless they're you
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You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it".
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You should be able to have good matches against anybody.
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If you have faith, that's what's going to get you through.
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Other people's opinion have no impact on your self esteem unless you allow it.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The...
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Unless you disregard shame, you won’t get a lasting reward.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU"
Unless you've been through it, you don't really think about it.
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You don't get to this point unless you're well prepared.
GERALD HORACEK
No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.
J.K. ROWLING

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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
ANDRE BRETON
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s...
ANDRE BRETON
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing...
ANDRE BRETON
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
ANDRE BRETON
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
ANDRE MAUROIS
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
ANDRE MAUROIS
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le...
ANDRE GIDE
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
ANDRE MAUROIS
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- be...
ANDRE GIDE
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gard...
ANDRE GIDE
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it...
ANDRE GIDE
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
ANDRE GIDE
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me...
ANDRE BRETON
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...
ANDRE MAUROIS
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from th...
ANDRE GIDE
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ...
ANDRE GIDE
The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
ANDRE GODIN
Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
ANDRE MALRAUX
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wag...
ANDRE BRETON
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
ANDRE MALRAUX
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly imp...
ANDRE DUBUS
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself i...
ANDRE BRETON
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the ...
ANDRE BRETON
Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There ...
ANDRE BRETON
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying th...
ANDRE BRETON
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
ANDRE MAUROIS
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I ...
ANDRE BRETON
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
ANDRE GIDE
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and le...
ANDRE BRETON
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
ANDRE BRETON
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attem...
ANDRE BRETON
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leav...
ANDRE BRETON