I’ve been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.
– Andre Agassi
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- You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. – Andre Agassi
- He was too good. I would suggest to his next opponent that he doesn’t look to me for advice. – Andre Agassi
- Overcoming Adversity Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. – Ralph Blum
- Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn’t want to see it for myself but I certainly didn’t want millions of people to see it. – Andre Agassi
- One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer
- My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was – it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order. – Andre Agassi
- I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face. – Johnny Depp
- From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems. – Joel Salatin
- My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. – Dhirubhai Ambani
- The face you have at age twenty-five is the face God gave you, but the face you have after fifty is the face you earned. – Cindy Crawford