Andre Agassi Quotes

You can't just learn wrestling overnight.

At some point I go back on the sand to get my sand legs. Because it takes a good month for my legs to catch up with everything, with the displacement and all that stuff. So right now we're training on the beach six days a week for practice, and that's generally about two and a half hours. And then I'm doing pilates three times a week.

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

What I've realised is that you can run miles, jump on a bike, lift weights, and all that other garbage, but the bottom line is that you get in tennis shape by playing tennis. You build the right muscles, and I don't believe people can do it as successfully any other way.

A lot of times, the press guys ask why I take an hour and a half to come to the interview room, but if you don't do the massage and the ice baths and the stretching and the cooling down and the eating, and your opponent is doing that stuff, they already have an advantage.

When you're doing any event on an elite level, you're in tune with your body.

In Serie A if you have an exceptional physique and you train very well you can destroy any opposing defense.

Anything you train can be improved upon. If you do it over and over again, your body is going to remember these moves and not be surprised in the game.

By the time the season's over, I'm ready to get back in the weight room and start training as far as getting stronger.

Friends sometimes ask me, 'When you get the ball what are you thinking?' But you do not have time to think. You have to do it. It's not instinct; that's not the right word, but it's how you feel in this moment. You sense it. It's trained, but it's trained inside you. It makes you faster in the moment.

I try to simulate as much as possible what we do on the field in my workouts, so when I get with the team I'm somewhere close.

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

My secret is to train as intensively as I can, if possible, with the same intensity you experience in a real match.

I can throw a football all day and my arm doesn't get tired. If I throw a baseball more than a certain amount of time, it's going to get a little sore.

There is nothing you can substitute for reps and carries in a game.

I was actually fairly athletic and coordinated, but I never played any organized sports.