Agassi Claims his Drug Use Remained Off Court November 8

The tennis star whose recent revelation that he used crystal meth in 1997 (the year he dealt with having dropped out of the sport along with other personal problems) sent shockwaves through the sports world, is now making it very clear that that use didn’t extend to the court. In fact the star claims that doing such a thing would have been physically impossible.
”No, I never did it in tournaments, I never did because it would have been a disaster. It’s hideous; it’s not the way you feel but what you’re incapable of. Your heart rate runs high enough as it is but to have that kind of heart rate and to tell yourself to calm down and hit a second serve is literally impossible. Then there’s the dehydration factor, the fact you can’t drink a lot of water, you don’t want to eat, you just wanna burn, you wanna burn, you wanna burn. You’d be lucky to last a set; it would not be physically possible to play a match without real health problems.”
Regretting his lies to the Association of Tennis Professionals the tennis star admits that it was the low point of his life, having made a name for himself in a career he didn’t choose for himself (a decision he says his father pushed on him) and hopes that his talking about it can help others who are stuck in a similar place.
“If my story can help one person let alone millions of people who wake up in a life they didn’t choose, wake up in a marriage they didn’t want … if it can help a teenager about to step into the pitfalls I stepped into – then that’s an easy price to pay if the price is some judgments, or some loss of reputation or some false image.”

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This was not the case. Unfortunately, there simply are things that are beyond people’s control – and one of that is how the people around you live their lives.