Andre Agassi:
Tennis is a lonely sport, probably the most lonely. You’re out there with no team, no coach and no place to hide. That’s why tennis players not only talk to themselves but answer. And yet all that loneliness eventually teaches you to stand alone. The high standards that tennis imposes on us, the self reliance it demands of us, that’s the reason why tennis has produced so many of life’s great game changers.
Brigid McCarthy:
This quote really resonated with me the first time I read it.
Tennis is a lonely sport, probably the most lonely…
Actually, I know one that is just as lonely. …
While most other teenagers are moving in packs, the gymnast is out there learning self-sufficiency and the kind of courage it takes to fight life’s physical and psychological battles unaided. And this ability to “stand alone” that Agassi describes is a self-sufficiency that will certainly help them at testing times in their later lives. …
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