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Open is not without faults. Sometimes Agassi's photographic memory works against him. Even the most fervent racquetheads will tire of the play by play. But if you're remotely intrigued by the mysteries of sports psychology, don't skip Agassi's breakdown of his classic 2005 U.S. Open win against James Blake. Agassi uncoils the choices a player must make in nanoseconds--"How aggressive do I want to be? Where do I want to station myself?"--while bringing you into the belly of his brain. "Rip it," Agassi tells himself...
...learned to play with emotion as a nine-year-old basketball player in Taiwan, putting in two-a-days year round for three-straight years...
...professional violin soloist and a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, has been assisting Mike with the technical aspects of the violin part. “It’s been a unique perspective seeing the piece come together because usually I will play pieces that have been written already,” she said...
...wasn’t because of [my basketball coach], I probably wouldn’t be able to play a sport at this level,” Ho says. “There would be drills where we would do suicides—conditioning drills—and he wanted people to scream as loud as they could, [to have] the mentality of a warrior. I kind of enjoyed that...
...know that life is not fair,” the running back says. “Sometimes you can do things right, and they can still go wrong, and I completely am aware of that, and my attitude is that I’m going to play with the cards I’m dealt...