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Nasty To Drugassi: "Give Up Your Titles.. ..And Leave the Sheep Alone".

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now hear this. Nasty wants Agassi to give up his titles:

Nastase: Agassi, give up all your titles
David Hill




Romanian tennis legend Ilie Nastase is asking US tennis star Andre Agassi to give up all his titles as he has cheated in tennis.


The move comes following Agassi's confessions in his autobiography "Open," which will be launched this week. It contains references to legendary Romanian tennis player Nastase, according to quotes from the book published by The Observer.

Agassi calls Nastase the "big, stupid Romanian", as the young Agassi had felt wounded by him.

Nastase said today (Mon) in an interview in Romanian daily Gandul: "He should be the one to regret a lot of things, not only that he doped. If he didn’t like tennis, why doesn’t he renounce at all his titles. Anyway, for me, it’s clear that Agassi cheated in tennis. I may have been crazy, but I was never stupid".

Agassi shocked the world by his confession in his autobiography as he admitted having used crystal meth in 1997 and lied to tennis authorities after failing a drug test.

He asked for compassion in a TV interview and said he had never played while high.

Agassi, one of the most-popular tennis players, won eight Grand Slam singles titles before retiring in 2006.




**it would seem that the world according to Drugassi Sheep Exploits International consists mostly of sheep. and accordingly, the sheep can be had pretty much at will. this is why his book is flying off the shelves all over the globe.

Drugassi Sheep Exploits International understands this well and will surely have another book out in a year or so. and it doesnt end there: there will be a movie based on his life and his carrer as well. Do not keep the sheep waiting Mr. Drugassi.






take a look at Drugassi`s world as it is known to him:



















here is what some of the global tennis personalities are saying about Drugassi`s confessions. check it all out and discuss your own final thoughts on this.How tennis world reacted to Andre Agassi’s admission of taking crystal meth
Andre Agassi’s autobiography, ‘Open’, has been the talk of tennis since extracts were published in which he admitted to using crystal meth, with Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, Boris Becker, Andy Roddick and many others having an opinion.


By Steve Wilson


Split opinion: Andre Agassi's admission that he took crystal meth and then lied about it to the ATP has seen a mixed reaction from peers in the sport.

Rafa Nadal:


“If the ATP covered for Agassi then I think that’s dreadful. If they covered for the player and punished others for doing the same kind of thing then that would seem to me to be a lack of respect for all sportsmen.”



“It was a shock when I heard the news. I am disappointed and I hope there are no more such cases in future.”

Darren Cahill (Agassi’s last professional coach):

“[Agassi is] extremely proud of the book and I’m proud of him for giving such an honest and revealing look at his life”.

Boris Becker:


“I’m the last person to throw stones, as there have been some difficult times in my own life, but to hear that he took crystal meth, that certainly puts a whole new light on Andre and it’s not a beautiful light.

“I’m struggling to get my head around why Andre would want to confess to something so damaging as taking drugs and then getting away with it? Why would he want to be so brutally honest?

“I’m really surprised that he would want to discuss such a private part of his life, to talk about such a bad period in his life. I’m sure this will help to sell his book. He doesn’t need the money, though. He’s a rich man.”

Andy Roddick:


“Andre is and always will be my idol. I will judge him on how he has treated me and how he has changed the world for the better.

“If anything we (the top players) are subjected to way more testing and attention. That’s just a fact. And, to be fair, when Andre wrote the reported letter (which deceived the authorities), he was well outside the top 100 and widely viewed as on the way out.”

Venus Williams:

“I’m sure his book will sell. But I can’t say anything about Andre Agassi’s life.”

Serena Williams:


“I don’t know what crystal meth is, that’s my reaction,” said the newly-crowned year-end world number one. I haven’t read anything about his book.”

Martina Navratilova:



“Shocking. Not as much shock that he did it as shock he lied about it and didn’t own up to it.

“Andre lied and got away with it. You can’t correct that now. Do you take away a title he wouldn’t have won if he had been suspended? He beat some people when he should have been suspended.”

Nick Bollettieri (Agassi’s former coach):


“I don’t condone what he did – I’ve made mistakes too, but I’ve done more good than bad.

“Let’s look at what Andre has done, he funds a school for 400 kids from the inner-city. I know underneath he’s a hell of guy.”


your final thoughts on all this. have at it. the floor is all yours. i still maintain that its all a very tactical financial ploy. read this other article below:


Agassi's drug revelations smack of financial ployAssociated Press
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PARIS (AP) - Imagined conversation between literary agent and retired tennis megastar with a dirty secret: "You want to get richer with me?"

Agassi shocker Andre Agassi's new book is full of stunning revelations about his life and has caused an uproar in the sporting world. Check out the latest in this ongoing story:
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Excerpt: I was jealous of 'Friends' star
Agassi book excerpts reveal shockers
AP: Admission looks like a ploy
Navratilova: He lied and got away with it
Publisher holds back Agassi e-book

"How?"

"With ker-plunk."

"What the hell's ker-plunk?"

"A tell-all autobiography."

"Why do they call it ker-plunk?"

"Because that's the sound the dollars make as they drop into our bank accounts."

Should we be surprised that Andre Agassi now tells us, 12 years after the fact, that he snorted crystal meth when his life and tennis were at a low? Absolutely not. You could fill a rehab center with all the top athletes who succumbed over the years to cocaine, weed, alcohol, binge-eating and the rest.

But we are entitled to feel manipulated by the manner in which Agassi's sordid confessions are being dished out, in tantalizing — even addictive? — little doses that will likely have readers, mugs that they are, heading for stores, hungry for more.

Was that taster good? Now buy the whole dose.

In the same way that Agassi's assistant Slim cut and readied "a small pile of powder on the coffee table," choice morsels from "Open: An Autobiography" — on sale Nov. 9, folks! — have been sliced, diced and pushed on us.


"Andre Agassi reveals his drugs shame," "sensational confession," trumpeted this week in the Times of London, among four publications that paid for rights to print headline-grabbing excerpts.

"Slim is stressed," read the juiciest part of the Times' extract. "He says, 'You want to get high with me? On what? Gack. What the hell's gack? Crystal meth. Why do they call it gack? Because that's the sound you make when you're high ... Make you feel like Superman, dude."'

Get that, kids?

Agassi took crystal meth and still won five more Grand Slams, reclaimed the No.1 ranking, wed Steffi Graf and tugged heartstrings with his tearful 2006 adieu to pro tennis at Arthur Ashe Stadium.

So either counselors have been overdoing their warnings that crank, ice, call it what you will, is one of the most addictive and ruinous drugs out there. Or, more likely, it's simply easier to kick the habit when you're rich enough to hire personal trainers to beat you back into shape and not living in misery with no future beyond your next high.

In short, was Agassi's drug-taking really worth sharing because it offers a universal and valuable lesson about how mistakes can be corrected? Or, mindful of its potential impact on those who look up to him, should he have kept this to himself?

The Times' extracts don't really allow us to answer those questions. Guess we'll have to buy the book. Instead, the message that comes across loudest is that crystal meth seems pretty fabulous. Too bad it makes your teeth fall out.

"A tidal wave of euphoria that sweeps away every negative thought in my head. I've never felt so alive, so hopeful — and I've never felt such energy," Agassi says.


Andre Agassi at the 1997 U.S. Open. (Jon Levy / Getty Images)

Perhaps recalling this high was cathartic for Agassi, but lacing his account with a bit more soul-searching might have been more educational.

As IOC president Jacques Rogge noted, "If his admission would go together with the message to young athletes that it should not be repeated, then that would be useful."

Equally as disturbing is Agassi's revelation that he failed a drug test but escaped sanction by telling a dog-ate-my-homework lie to the ATP that he "drank accidentally" from a drink that Slim had spiked, "unwittingly ingesting his drugs."

Question for those who run tennis: how many other stars were let off the hook like this? If Agassi, by then a three-time Grand Slam winner, hadn't been such a crowd-pleaser, would he have been punished?

The year Agassi snorted was also the first to see a tennis player suspended for drug use. But who had ever heard of Ignacio Truyol of Spain, ranked No. 127 and convicted for a steroid and a stimulant?

Given retired players' subsequent autobiographical confessions about how they toked and sniffed, it now seems a glaring failure that the sport didn't clean house as vigorously as Agassi says he did on meth's high, tearing around dusting his furniture, scouring his tub and making his beds.

Bidding among publishers competing for Agassi's memoir reportedly topped $5 million — more in line with what a former U.S. president might expect — when Alfred A. Knopf acquired the rights in 2007.

"White House money," a rival publisher, David Hirshey of HarperCollins, said at the time.

Now drip-drip-dripped excerpts are creating pre-sale buzz.

Maybe money from the book will go to one of Agassi's philanthropic endeavors. Having earned more than $31 million in career prize money, perhaps cash wasn't his motivation for this at all.

But if not, then, as with drugs, don't be taken in.

John Leicester is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jleicester@ap.org.
 
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Andre Agassi’s autobiography, ‘Open’, has been the talk of tennis since extracts were published in which he admitted to using crystal meth, with Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, Boris Becker, Andy Roddick and many others having an opinion.
When I read this the first time, it looked like Andre admitted to using meth with fed, rafa, becker, roddick and many others.

The second time I realized that they just had an opinion on Andre's meth use.

Anyway, I don't know what his motives were for this tell all book (the guy has more money than God). He must have had his reasons though. I'm still waiting for that piece of the story.
 
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agassi was a company man, as was sampras. this shit wouldn't have gone out if he was the only one who could make a choice on it.

check this out Vida:


Agassi doping case not a dead issue: WADA
Sun Nov 1, 2009 4:41pm EST




1 of 1Full SizeNEW YORK (Reuters) - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) wants to investigate whether any charges can be brought against Andre Agassi following his admission that he lied after taking crystal meth in 1997 and failing a drugs test.



Agassi's revelations in extracts of his autobiography "Open," published last week in The Times newspaper in Britain, stunned the tennis world and cast a shadow over the eight-times grand slam champion's glittering career.

"He took something from the banned list in 1997, we can't do much about that because it's outside the statute of limitations, the eight-year bar," WADA director general David Howman told Reuters on Sunday.

"Two things need a little bit more inquiry, if he's lied, and he's confessed he lied, so he's obviously lied and he lied under oath then I think that warrants further investigation to see whether there might be any other charges.

"We all know about Marion Jones, she lied to a tribunal, it can't just be one of those things you get away with," he added in reference to the American sprinter who served a six-month prison term for lying to federal prosecutors about her drug use.

"The second issue is, he had a lawyer represent him, does his lawyer know that he was lying?

"Maybe something can be done in relation to that."

After failing a drugs test, Agassi wrote a letter to the ATP asking for leniency because he had accidentally drunk a "spiked soda" belonging to his assistant.

Agassi received no punishment from the governing body of men's tennis.

WADA has an eight-year limit on punishment for doping offences but last week former Ukraine pole vaulter Sergei Bubka, a committee member on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Agassi should be penalized for taking banned substances.

"It may not be something the ATP has any jurisdiction over. It may be that some other agency has to look at it," Howman said. "We just don't rely on sport to sanction for doping offences.

"These things have to be pursued," Howman added. "You don't just take them at face value, that it's outside the eight-year limit so nothing can be done. You've got to say maybe something else can be done."

(Reporting by Steve Keating in Green Bay; Writing by Martyn Herman in Doha, Editing by Alison Wildey and Ed Osmond)
 
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Ah... Andy Roddick's response!:inlove:

But why didn't any of them comment about the ATP just letting the whole thing drop?

Outside of Andre lying about it which wasn't very commendable obviously, so did the ATP!

Nevermind, Rafa said something! :inlove:
 
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He didn't perjure himself - ypu have to be unde roath to perjure yourself. The Howman guy is a total idiot apparently.

Here are some other opinions:

Andy Murray:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-1224546/Andy-Murray-hurry-climb-rankings.html

Wayne Bryan:
http://www.sacbee.com/sports/story/2297383.html

Billie Jean King:
http://www.mydesert.com/article/200...Jean-King-supports-Andre-Agassi--100-percent-

Thomas Muster:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ite-drugs-says-Muster/articleshow/5186792.cms
 
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Thanks for posting.

What did Roger say?

I already said this in another thread, but I've lost respect for Andre. Yeah.. he'd done a lot for kids. But he was busted and to lie about it. I dunno. I can't call him a great champion anymore even though he was a very good tennis player.

The positive is he's talking now. HOWEVER, is it just to sell books?

You know what? As history has shown it's not very often the "offense," but it's the lies and the coverups, people just can't condone.

And now to the the sensationalized truth to sell books, I ain't buying it literally.
 
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Agassi is an embarrassment to humankind and a classless drug addict and I pity Roddick and Daren Cahill for defending him like his bitches. Get off your knees, guys girls :rolleyes:
Well, I think Andy really idolizes Andre. I think I read somewhere he patterned his own foundation after Andre's. Plus, he's participated in benefits for him.

To me, it's expected Andy would remain loyal to Andre. He's going to give him the benefit of the doubt. So I respect that. He's not thinking straight. Sure Andre has done a lot of good for charity and is pretty popular, but then again, Andre never had to suffer any consequences for failing that drug test, and now admitting he lied.

It's a mixed bag. If he hadn't been so successful, then would he have gone on to do such good works? In a way, I hope Andre is reprimanded in some way. I don't really know what the ATP can do about it now though. It should have acted a more assertively from the get-go.

On the other hand, I really liked Rafa's response, but Rafa is more detached from the situation. To me, Rafa is on point.

Roger's response was OK, too.
 
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Serena Williams:

“I don’t know what crystal meth is, that’s my reaction,” said the newly-crowned year-end world number one. I haven’t read anything about his book.”
She also said, "All I know is that I have a book coming out."

...

:spit: :retard: :eek:

Thanks for posting.

What did Roger say?

I already said this in another thread, but I've lost respect for Andre. Yeah.. he'd done a lot for kids. But he was busted and to lie about it. I dunno. I can't call him a great champion anymore even though he was a very good tennis player.

The positive is he's talking now. HOWEVER, is it just to sell books?

You know what? As history has shown it's not very often the "offense," but it's the lies and the coverups, people just can't condone.

And now to the the sensationalized truth to sell books, I ain't buying it literally.
Federer said he was disappointed, hoped Agassi felt relieved finally confessing all that stuff, said he's a good guy whose foundation has still raised a lot of money to help children which is the most important part, stressed that drug cases should be prevented in the future and tennis should remain clean.

Something like that.
 
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She also said, "All I know is that I have a book coming out."

...

:spit: :retard: :eek:



Federer said he was disappointed, hoped Agassi felt relieved finally confessing all that stuff, said he's a good guy whose foundation has still raised a lot of money to help children which is the most important part, stressed that drug cases should be prevented in the future and tennis should remain clean.

Something like that.
most of the top personalities in the sport are disappointed in drugassi.
 
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:inlove: :inlove: :inlove:

Andy Roddick:


“Andre is and always will be my idol. I will judge him on how he has treated me and how he has changed the world for the better.”
:inlove: :inlove: :inlove:
 
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Marat:

Safin said the eight-time Grand Slam champion should have spoken up at the time of the positive test or kept his mouth shut.

"One should know how to be silent, but if you are so smart you should have spoken up earlier," Safin said of Agassi after reaching the quarterfinals at the St. Petersburg Open.

"You will never live to see such revelations from me.

"How they will escape this situation -- this is the ATP's and Agassi's problem," Safin added.
 
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That's not the only thing Nadal said. This is the rest of his statement:

"Cheaters must be punished and if Agassi was a cheater during his career, he should have been punished. To me it seems terrible. Why is he saying this now that he has retired? It's a way of damaging the sport that makes no sense. I believe our sport is clean and I am the first one that wants that."

This is what Fed said:

"It was a shock when I heard the news. I am disappointed and I hope there are no more such cases in future. Our sport must stay clean. But Andre has done a lot for tennis, both as a player and as a human being. Today, he raises millions of dollars for his foundation for disadvantaged children."
 
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and now this. check this out folks:


Difficult to take action against Agassi: ITF
Sreemoy Talukdar / DNATuesday, November 3, 2009 3:31 IST Email

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Mumbai: Andre Agassi has played his cards well. The eight-time Grand Slam champion has timed his confessions as sweetly as the backhand returns that felled the likes of Pete Sampras during his playing days. Despite the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) thundering on Sunday that it wants to reopen the case and launch an investigation, the tennis governing body has virtually ruled out such a move.

According to the International Tennis Federation (ITF), it would be very difficult to prosecute the American due to a number of reasons. "It would have been difficult even if he was still playing," an ITF official told DNA over the phone from London on Monday.

"Not only is the case outside the statute of limitations due to the eight-year bar, we cannot put someone on trial -- who has since retired -- based on laws which were not even formed when the supposed offense took place," he added.

The ITF's statement is significant since it manages dope testing at just about every tennis tournament, including the Grand Slams and all ATP-sanctioned events.

Following Agassi's admission in his soon-to-be-published autobiography that he had lied to the ATP after taking crystal meth and failing a drug test in 1997, the WADA has since said that "the Agassi issue is not dead yet."

WADA director general David Howman said on Sunday that "if he's lied, and confessed he lied, so he's obviously lied under oath. That warrants further investigation to see whether there might be any other charges."

But the ITF sees no such developments. "The incident happened before the WADA was formed in 1999 and when the dope-related offenses were managed by the ATP. So it's extremely unlikely that this particular case would be reopened," it said.

The ITF, however, feels the Agassi incident has proved once again the need to have a foolproof system in place. "After the incidents involving Richard Gasquet and Mariano Puerta, the anti-doping law has been tightened up (both players claimed they had inadvertently swallowed the drug).

"The ITF believes it is the player's responsibility to ensure that the illegal substance does not enter his body," the official said.The ATP, meanwhile, stayed steadfast on its policy of not commenting on the contentious issue.

In an emailed statement to this newspaper, Nicola Arzani, ATP senior vice-president, said: "Under the tennis anti-doping programme...an independent panel makes a decision. The ATP has always followed this rule and no executive at the ATP has therefore had the authority or ability to decide the outcome.






 
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WADA director general David Howman said on Sunday that "if he's lied, and confessed he lied, so he's obviously lied under oath. That warrants further investigation to see whether there might be any other charges."
Everything the WADA says is directed at the ATP, they don't care about Agassi.

More precisely here, I think they want the ATP (who spoke of an "independent tribunal") to reveal how they actually dealt with this case,

and to publically admit that he didn't even have to say a word (and then "lie under oath") ahead of any tribunal.
 
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Agassi cleared his slate and helped tennis at the same time.

He won't have to worry about anyone using this against him also, a big load off his shoulders.

And tennis is getting a spanking by giving him a free pass, tennis took a risky chance looking the other way and got burned. This is good, in the future, tennis better do what they have to and I think they will, that is how tennis is benefitting.

Basically this would mean little except the Gasquet case looks similiar.
 
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Agassi cleared his slate and helped tennis at the same time.

He won't have to worry about anyone using this against him also, a big load off his shoulders.

And tennis is getting a spanking by giving him a free pass, tennis took a risky chance looking the other way and got burned. This is good, in the future, tennis better do what they have to and I think they will, that is how tennis is benefitting.

Basically this would mean little except the Gasquet case looks similiar.

that is an interesting point of view. you are probably right.

i do know one thing. this little fallibility on the part of a mega global superstar makes him even bigger than he was already. this make him more human in a way.
 
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You all know Andre MADE SURE he couldn't be prosecuted. You KNOW he had a team of lawyers working on this before he published his damn book.

I don't have as much sympathy for Andre. Well, I do in certain respects. And I appreciate his good works. But... I can't really condone what he did or what he's doing--the fact he's making money off his "confessions." It's like he's saying "Nanny, nanny boo-boo."

I mean, it's just as "human" to not take drugs and to not lie, accepting the consequences of your actions. Just because he had a "troubled" background... well I don't give him a pass. I mean, a lot people come from a troubled background and don't get involved with this stuff. At the same time, a lot people from a privileged background get involved with this stuff, and are liars and cheats to beat. I think it's a character flaw.

Besides, there are plenty of top athletes who don't engage in this behavior in spite of those who do. I doubt very seriously we'll ever read of Roger doing this. And Rafa.. no--even though a lot of you think he does. I'd be shocked to find-out Pete Sampras was ever involved in this type of behavior.

So.. yeah, Andre made a mistake. We all make mistakes in one way or another. But most of the time we suffer consequences for it. Andre is being REWARDED for this stuff financially as well as reputation-wise. Now.. people are saying how courageous he was. He's not courageous. He would have been courageous for telling the truth when everything was on the line. I mean, for a guy who hates tennis, apparently, this is really like a big thumbing his nose to the entire sport.

The ATP should have investigated further, not so willing to accept his word. So this is what "tennis" gets for trusting he was telling the truth--not that the ATP didn't have ulterior motives, perhaps. ANDRE LIED, blaming somebody else. He's still blaming everybody! How old is he? He's blaming his dad for "forcing" him into tennis. Well, Andre sure took long enough to retire from the game he "hated."

And it's tennis' fault for taking him at his word. It's everybody's fault but Andre's. Poor Andre, the victim, my ass.
 
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You all know Andre MADE SURE he couldn't be prosecuted. You KNOW he had a team of lawyers working on this before he published his damn book.

I don't have as much sympathy for Andre. Well, I do in certain respects. And I appreciate his good works. But... I can't really condone what he did or what he's doing--the fact he's making money off his "confessions." It's like he's saying "Nanny, nanny boo-boo."

I mean, it's just as "human" to not take drugs and to not lie, accepting the consequences of your actions. Just because he had a "troubled" background... well I don't give him a pass. I mean, a lot people come from a troubled background and don't get involved with this stuff. At the same time, a lot people from a privileged background get involved with this stuff, and are liars and cheats to beat. I think it's a character flaw.

Besides, there are plenty of top athletes who don't engage in this behavior in spite of those who do. I doubt very seriously we'll ever read of Roger doing this. And Rafa.. no--even though a lot of you think he does. I'd be shocked to find-out Pete Sampras was ever involved in this type of behavior.

So.. yeah, Andre made a mistake. We all make mistakes in one way or another. But most of the time we suffer consequences for it. Andre is being REWARDED for this stuff financially as well as reputation-wise. Now.. people are saying how courageous he was. He's not courageous. He would have been courageous for telling the truth when everything was on the line. I mean, for a guy who hates tennis, apparently, this is really like a big thumbing his nose to the entire sport.

The ATP should have investigated further, not so willing to accept his word. So this is what "tennis" gets for trusting he was telling the truth--not that the ATP didn't have ulterior motives, perhaps. ANDRE LIED, blaming somebody else. He's still blaming everybody! How old is he? He's blaming his dad for "forcing" him into tennis. Well, Andre sure took long enough to retire from the game he "hated."

And it's tennis' fault for taking him at his word. It's everybody's fault but Andre's. Poor Andre, the victim, my ass.

believe you me that drugassi will comes out smelling like a rose after all the dust has settled down.

the sport takes a tiny hit but the sport is too big. it will all be water under the bridge soon. the sport will quickly move on.
 
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this its.like.that character has to be on the same shit. this crystal meth is a bad deal if you are just an average joe sixpack like its.like.that.. put down the shit dude. its clearly not working for you.


 
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Agassi is no saint, wasn't before and he isn't now.
 
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Agassi is no saint, wasn't before and he isn't now.
in the eyes of fickle fools and we do have enough of them on this planet, he just became a little more human and a little more saint-like.

he is a clever fellow who made a vast fortune from his tennis and is now on his way to making even more from other ventures.
 
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I believe its unfair to comment UNTIL one has read the ENTIRE book...not excerpts. All these media outlets, as evidenced even from the excerpts taken from the book, have cut quotes from here and there...and not quoted entire lines...leading to MUCH misinterpretation of events and things surrounding them.

Take his father's "complaining" about Agassi's losing the fourth set of his Wimbledon victory. The man was simply trying to maintain his facade of toughness...because, and this was not even mentioned by the media, he couldn't follow up that comment because he was crying so much because he was so proud of his son.
 
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I believe its unfair to comment UNTIL one has read the ENTIRE book...not excerpts. All these media outlets, as evidenced even from the excerpts taken from the book, have cut quotes from here and there...and not quoted entire lines...leading to MUCH misinterpretation of events and things surrounding them.

Take his father's "complaining" about Agassi's losing the fourth set of his Wimbledon victory. The man was simply trying to maintain his facade of toughness...because, and this was not even mentioned by the media, he couldn't follow up that comment because he was crying so much because he was so proud of his son.
Ok.. I guess Rafa didn't get your memo on not commenting until he read the book. I'm sure it will be up there on Rafa's list of books to read! Maybe he should refrain from commenting until he's read the book, too? He doesn't seem very impressed with Andre's "confessions" at all, and I don't blame him.

Personally, I don't think Rafa or any of the rest of us have to refrain from commenting about Andre taking drugs, lying after he failed a drug test, then the ATP burying the whole matter. I wouldn't consider myself particularly conservative, but I even see what Andre did was wrong, and I don't have to read his book to try to "understand" his motivation for doing what he did. All of us have motivation for doing what we do--there are valid reasons maybe. But that still doesn't turn a wrong into a right.

So if you want to "understand" Andre, read his book. But those of us who are extremely disappointed in him--and as a fan of the sport and of him personally I'm extremely disappointed in him, we have every right to say, "Thanks but no thanks."
 
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Re: The World Responds To Andre Agassi`s Confessions

Yeah, look at the bright side. It sells books...Maybe he'd help more children with funds.

Anyway people are people. Good is good, and evil is evil. Mistakes are mistakes. If you want to throw stones you should consider everything carefully. He's not a sole soul who has done this. Celebrities do it and they get away with it. Let's just not forget, karma makes its way to us.

But they're people who deserve a life, whatever they'd do with their lives, it's up to them. We can gossip our hearts out but we don't know the real deal.

It's sad, because well-known figures can influence other people. I hope they do not emulate Andre on the drug thing, or anyone else who does drugs.

But how come I've never heard Steffi say anything. For sure she must have known this for sometime longer than all of us did...

I'd be genuinely interested on what she has to say.
 
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