Andre Agassi Quotes

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet and keep going.

If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you'd get nowt done.

I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

Most people in life, give up too early.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I could overcome those obstacles.