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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: 10 Questions for Andre Agassi [Watch (HLS stream): 10 Questions for Andre Agassi](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/l0lSNIJJ.m3u8) (5:10)  _Published 2013-10-09. Former professional tennis player Andre Agassi talks with TIME's Belinda Luscombe about his charity foundation, new snack product, and his "hate-love" relationship with tennis._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:50 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Andre Agassi on Roger Federer and the Next Generation of Tennis Stars](/video/pJJJFkMi/) ### Andre Agassi on Roger Federer and the Next Generation of Tennis Stars [Tennis Great Andre Agassi's Next Chapter](/video/GTXFYGym/) ### Tennis Great Andre Agassi's Next Chapter [Andre Agassi's "Hate-Love" Relationship with Tennis](/video/ITP7o5wJ/) ### Andre Agassi's "Hate-Love" Relationship with Tennis --- ## Transcript Hi, I'm Belinda Luscombe from Time. The man I'm with today needs no introduction, Andre Agassi, welcome. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Yeah. Now we're here to talk about your foundation and your snack food. Yes. But first I'm fascinated by your necklace. [ LAUGH ] Can you tell me a little bit about? My son made it for me when he was five. He was doing an arts and craft project and said, dad would you help me? And I said, sure what can I do? He goes Tell me how to spell something, and I go, what? And he goes, daddy rocks [ LAUGH ]. So I helped him spell it out and I haven't taken it off since. So you are now getting into snack foods, which seems like an unusual direction for you. Well, not, I wouldn't say I'm getting into snack foods. What I would say is I'm extending my reach in, in ways of helping public education. I mean, I was approached by V- 20 to do a, a for- profit venture that I had no interest in. And I said, well wait a second, wouldn't this be one heck of an opportunity to get the country involved? And giving to their future. Do you actually eat applesauce? I don't. Huh! Personally. Now careful. It's pretty good. I don't, I don't personally. Mm. I wanted to make sure that That's not bad. Yeah, I wanted to make sure that It was a step in the right direction from an alternative perspective meaning healthier than other things on the shelf. Since you started your foundation you have focused in more and more and more on education. Why did that issue speak to you? Because it was the only way I've eventually realized you can make systemic change, given the tools. Was, was, what I realized needed to happen. These kids needed a future of their choosing. They need to have choice in their life and the only way to have a choice is to have an education. I, I didn't have a choice in my life. I, I didn't have education. I was lucky and found myself good at tennis. But without that, I don't know where I'd be. Then I look at the circumstances of these other kids Without education I know exactly where they'll be, we'll be building prisons instead of schools. Is this a reflection of your own particular feeling about how you want to invest your money? If you wanna treat a problem I think philanthropy or even possibly the government can treat some problems, but if your gonna cure it, I think that's one thing we can still do in this country, is we can innovate. We can think outside the box. We can bring the right players to the, to the table to create a win for everybody. And it's, it's, it's social minded investing. And that is key. And trust me we wouldn't have twenty seven schools if this wasn't a huge win for the operators. It's a win across the board which is what makes it so exciting. You famously wrote in your book Open that you hate tennis, but you were very good at tennis, so I guess the question is do you hate philanthropy as well? [ LAUGH ] no, no. Actually, philanthropy got me to not hate tennis. I, I don't describe my relationship with tennis as a love- hate, I describe it as a hate- love. It was, it, it started off not my choice. It started off effecting my siblings, it's, my relationship with my father. It started off with me being sent away to an academy at 13, feeling abandoned. It started off with me taking this rebellion that I was starting to express, and finding myself on a world stage. And, and being labeled, and you know so it just kept growing into something that I was more, and more disconnected with. It felt like I was living in somebody else's life. I would always been better off in a team sport, and tennis wasn't a team sport it was it's lonely, but I could create my own team. I could in a sense find my self showing up to work for somebody else. What I felt when I started my school. And when I started to, use my fame, use my resources, to make a difference in children's lives. In a sense, I felt like I finally had my team. Do you watch tennis, still? I do. I enjoy watching it probably more now than ever. The money part doesn't seem that hard. To you. What do you say when you go to these kids at your school? And you know, that is, that is a very hard path for them. Like how do you speak to somebody who, who is in a very different position from you? The same way I, I speak to the kids at Harvard. To be at Harvard, you gotta be an absolute perfectionist. You have to live with unbearable amounts of pressure. Whether you put it on yourself, or whether it's put on for you. I was 16 years old, and I was professional. Some people would say well done, congratulations. I'm going what do you mean? Now I gotta survive. Now I gotta. And then all of a sudden I'm getting to the finals of these grand slams, and lot of people would say hey, well done. I'm going wait a second. I'm, I'm on the verge of being the greatest underachiever in the history of our game. You know, so, I don't have to look very far with the life I've lived, to identify. You know, I've lived with, certainly a lot in my life. Lot of excess. Lot that I don't need. But I've also, also been on the other side of it. I've also had to Work myself through it. You know, when I was a child a lot. When I was on the, about to turn pro, and on the road I was, I knew what it was like to be one week away from broke, I mean literally. When I look at those kids, there's not an excuse in the world they can give me. To make me think that they can't succeed. Andre, thanks so much. 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