![]() ![]() You’d had enough success, and earned enough money, to retire happily to Las Vegas at that point, so why keep at it? But it left me a little empty, and I spiraled down until something had to change. I thought that getting to number one was going to be the moment I made sense of my life. So you keep living the Groundhog Day, the hamster wheel. After that it becomes your life, and you have some success, and the world tells you that you should be thrilled. You don’t know what else you’re going to do, and fear is one hell of a motivator. Then, being sent away to an academy at 13, the only way out was to succeed. So I put my head down and did the best I could. Or, if I didn’t succeed, it would take a toll on our family. As a child, I knew nothing but success would be accepted. Why did you play for so long?Īgassi: At first it was a lack of alternatives. HBR: In your autobiography, you confessed that you hate tennis. “The idea that I succeed at your demise doesn’t fit the culture,” he explains. Married (to fellow champion Steffi Graf) with two kids, he now oversees a foundation and a charter school in Las Vegas where accountability is the mantra. ![]() ![]() Andre Agassi started his tennis career “in diapers” and ended it at age 36, having won eight Grand Slam titles. ![]()
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