Andre and his Book...

[GOA MASTER MDMA]

To sell books. Simple. Lots of money or not, don't kid yourself, he is "selling" a book. You don't stop working or doing business just because you already have "money". By that logic, why Fedderer is signing with Nike? ....he has money. Or Rolex.

I gotta disagree here, his books would sell anyway, and there are other things in the book that would really help it sell(like the hating tennis bit), so if he is guarenteed to make loads of money anyway, i dont see andre potentially ruining his reputation for a few more $

believe me you are wrong coke.

when agassi wrote a normal book -without meth consum and scandals.
no one speak long about the book and not much people will buy the book!!.only a few fans .

the book with the scandals will be a bestseller -with most possible free puplicity!
the thema meth and agassis book is daily in the media -everyone discuss about-over weeks- most will buy it to read the whole story

AGASSI SELL WITHOUT METH STORY 100 000 books
AGASSI SELL WITH METH STORY 1,500 000 books.

much diffeerence right?
and to open the methstory in the book is not bad for agassi -he don´t play anymore tennis. he is independend -have a great family . nothing can happen bad for him-
its good for him to see the people where show with a finger on him.
so he see his true friends

BTW: that was not the exactly number of saled books

[djarvik]

Can we get a confirmation on the numbers above? sorry, couldn't resist.

[GOA MASTER MDMA]

you make me laugh mate
so the horse is not dead - he is riding again like a foal

[jayl0ve]

This is one horse that will never die.

[djarvik]

The horse is faking it, it ain't dead.

[GOA MASTER MDMA]

okay this horse looks definitifly dead

[Q. Reese]

Notice, there are two different reactions to the scene within the photo.

[Coolhand Texas]

yes the horse seems to be smiling?

[Q. Reese]

No . . . that would be death, my friend.

[GOA MASTER MDMA]

Notice, there are two different reactions to the scene within the photo.

yeh i see the fat ugly womans in the backround

i miss the blood in the pic-where is the blood ? cencored?????

[Coolhand Texas]

Nope, i think he is smiling

[Coolhand Texas]

Here is Safin's reaction to it. I was sort of shocked that he said he think andre should give back his titles and money.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=4640519

[jayl0ve]

I'm really disgusted by a lot of player's reactions to this. Safin especially surprised the hell out of me- he is known as the biggest party animal/drinker (he's even been seen smoking cigarettes) in the ATP, and for him to say this just because Agassi tried a drug that Safin might not have ever tried before....really way more dissapointed in Federer, Nadal, Safin et al, than Agassi. The only reason I could see for this backlash is that people have a severely distorted perception of what meth is and what it does...I've said it like 20 times already probably, but meth would never help you win an ATP tennis match.

Also, to be quite honest, Agassi was probably never seriously that deep into the world of methamphetamine. If he was, it would have been really really hard to hide.

[emate007]

Completely agree... This is like Philipoussis coming out and condemning Safin for going to a strip club.

-10 points for Marat, one of my favorite personalities.

[Cro Morgan]

Great review of Agassi's book (below). You gotta give Agassi credit. The guy is laying it all out, as a human being, not some corporate drone.


Chris Nashawaty | Nov 04, 2009

Regardless of whether they have a story to tell or the skill to tell it, ex-jocks seem compelled to crank out memoirs. Usually these tell-alls don't come close to telling all. They unspool clichés about tough childhoods, fast-forward through the glory-days highlight reel, and top it all off with a coda about adjusting to life after the final buzzer.

Of course, Andre Agassi was never an ordinary jock. Even if you didn't know the difference between a backhand slice and a forehand volley, you knew the wild child of tennis. He hit the ball harder than anyone, he dated a procession of stars, and he looked like he'd just walked in from a Bon Jovi video. But all of that — even the hair, it turns out—was a lie. Agassi hated tennis, he wore a wig to disguise his premature baldness, and, most shockingly of all, he hid a crystal meth habit that would cost him his No. 1 ranking and his marriage to Brooke Shields.

Not for nothing is his autobiography called Open.

Agassi's drug mea culpa has dominated his autobiography's prerelease PR blitz. And it is a sucker punch of a confession when it comes, told (like every chapter of the book) with unflinching honesty and style. But Agassi's most heartfelt and harrowing chapters are saved for his tough-love relationship with his cold, combustible Armenian-immigrant father. ''Violent by nature...he keeps an ax handle in his car. He leaves the house with a handful of salt and pepper in each pocket, in case he's in a street fight and needs to blind someone.'' Whoa.

Eventually, Agassi manages to find redemption on the court (his brilliant retelling of the 2006 U.S. Open slugfest with Marcos Baghdatis is like Rocky with tennis rackets) and off it (with his second wife, tennis great Steffi Graf). By the time Agassi's hopeful ending arrives, not only has he bared his soul like few professional athletes ever have, he's done it with a flair and force that most professional writers can't even pull off.