Gil Reyes Quotations

We're in uncharted waters. We don't know how Andre's going to feel. You can get Andre off his feet so that shuts down the body, but how about the mind? That's what we have to try to come up with - I'm not sure if we can find a way.

Yes, it sure seemed that way. The sad fact of the matter is that, at 35, we don't really have the luxury of healing time.

We're not crazy about the cortisone, but it allows us to work.

If this didn't hurt so bad, then we probably shouldn't be here. It hurts, it hurts real bad because it matters so much.

I can honestly say he's in the best physical shape of his career and has never trained as extensively or intensively.

He understands that people work hard to buy tickets to see him. He's them with a racket, and they are him with a necktie.

He has to find a way to go out there and go after Roger a little bit. Until anyone proves differently, Roger's the best. He's proven that and no one has proven otherwise. That's the task at hand. It's the moment you work for.

He was ready for the battle, but I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we totally ignored the fact that it's a 35-year-old body.

I think this may light the fire again.

Just for those few magic moments today, this place was rockin', this place was rockin'. The magic was there, the feeling was there.

That was a high in all ways. Andre was tested, he was put on the hot plate. ... We just needed to go find a hamburger somewhere.

I would look over there and say all is well. Win or lose, all is well.

We can't depend on the cortisone shots. There was something transitional about that period that cortisone was appropriate. We had to pull him off a career ending state of mind. It's too fragile an option and certainly a risky option.

We agreed that I'd help him for three months, and that was 16 years ago.

We will do whatever we need to do to have him ready. I asked him just a little while ago, 'At 35, what are we going to do?' And he said 'I don't know, I've never been 35 before.' He said, 'Let's learn together. 'We'll have to see how he pulls up in the morning, how he feels. Whoever he plays he's going to be ready.

Coming back from Paris after the French Open this year, that was darkness, because we truly didn't know what was to come. You hear the whispers, some louder than others: 'Is he finished?' All we knew was that it was not going to be a doctor who said he's finished.

It's just not in our plans yet to retire.

It's always been like coming home. Andre feels he has earned his place in this family.

In one sense, it was an easy decision to make because you have a good racehorse who is about to pull up injured, so you have to take him off the track and fix him up. But it was tough to have to make it.

If I can use a cliche, he just has to be Andre Agassi ? the guy who weathered so much for so long. The guy who knows so much about matches and be every bit of Andre Agassi he can be. Against Roger Federer you have to bring your best because he sets the standard. There's no way Roger is going to give anything to anybody.