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Watching myself sniffle I've given myself the rest of the day off to rest and recover. Spent too long on Friday idly walking about in the cold and rain.
Just finished skipping about Andre Agassi's "Open." There's one quote I wanted to find the page # for because I've been using it for myself. Found it. Page 7.
Interesting man, complex, hated tennis but lied to the press and public and said he loved it. Had to shed his father's motives for winning and find his own, tumbling from the top ranks to 141 and battling back to the top. Won my heart by founding a charter school for poor kids in Los Vegas, his home town. Here's the quote:
The finish line at the end of a career is no different from the finish line at the end of a match. The objective is to get within reach of that finish line, because then it gives off a magnetic force. When you’re close, you can feel that force pulling you, and you can use that force to get across. But just before you come within range, or just after, you feel another force, equally strong, pushing you away. It’s inexplicable, mystical, these twin forces, these contradictory energies, but they both exist. I know, because I’ve spent so much of my life seeking the one, fighting the other, and sometimes I’ve been stuck, suspended, bounced like a tennis ball between the two. ~ Andre Agassi
Last edited by Revu2; Feb 04, 2025 at 07:02 PM.
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