No other public figure has changed more in my estimation than Andre Agassi. At the beginning of his career he was exactly the type of athlete I find annoying, and now he is exactly the type of public figure I admire. To say he has put his money where his mouth is would be an understatement.
Don't know his story? Here's some recommended reading:
Andre Agassi's second act as compelling as the first (Bill Dwyre, LA Times)
Coming Into Focus (Gary Smith, SI.com)
photo by Jon SooHoo/Dodgers
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I agree, Agassi seems to have become a very different and better person. I also disliked him when he first became famous. But in retrospect, he was never really that bad back then - he was only a teenager.
I hereby give Andre a pass on his teenage years.
Props for pointing this out. It's weird because I had a similar arc of thinking about Agassi. I used not to like him because of his "image is everything" image. But then I had the opportunity to collaborate with some of the foundation and political work that Agassi was doing as he wound down his career, and I grew to respect him a lot.
EK-
Can you give me a pass on my teenage years?
Also my 20s?
Sorry DB...Agassi only got the pass because he redeemed himself in his 30's.
Fair enough. I'm a long way from redemption.
"No other public figure has changed more in my estimation than Andre Agassi."
I agree, now that Michael Jackson's dead.
Agassi is starting to look like skinny, less frightening Bas Rutten.
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