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His high-scoring totals are the result of his high percentage of accuracy, not of an impulse to shoot every time he gets the ball.
John McPhee • A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
What Kind of Game are You Playing
In the 1999 tennis book, Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player, author Simon Ramo broke down the difference between amateur and professional tennis, writing that they were two different types of games:
Amateur tennis is a Loser's Game: 80% of points are lost on unforced errors. You win by avoiding error
Days before my thirty-third birthday, I’m the oldest player ever ranked number one.
Andre Agassi • Open
I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
Andre Agassi • Open
Carlos Alcaraz revealed the simple words from his veteran coach Samuel Lopez that inspired his title run at Monte Carlo :
“ ‘Stay positive’ is the thing that he repeated most this week. ‘Stay strong and stay positive’,” said Alcaraz. “One thing that he told me and probably was the key of this great week was, ‘You have to face the difficulties you ha
... See moreAgassi’s facial expression is the slightly smug self-aware one of somebody who’s used to being looked at and automatically assumes the minute he shows up anywhere that everybody’s looking at him.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, which inevitably leads to self-talk, and for me the self-talk starts here in the afternoon shower. This is when I begin to say things to myself, crazy things, over and over, until I believe them.
Andre Agassi • Open
“Perfection is impossible. In the 1526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. Now, I have a question for you.
What percentage of points do you think I won in those matches? Only 54%.
In other words, even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play. When you lose every second point on
... See moreJoe Montana, perhaps the greatest quarterback in NFL history, in his last season as a professional, when he was playing for Kansas City, would spend two hours a day every day at the same little practice field at Menlo College near San Francisco. I would work with him on basic fundamentals that would bore a high schooler to death. Joe had four Super
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