David Senra

I go to the bathroom and look in the mirror.

I stare at my face, a face totally different from the one with which I started, but also different from the one I saw last year in this same mirror.

Whoever I might be, I'm not the boy who started this odyssey, and I'm not even the man who announced three months ago that the odyssey was coming to an end.

I'm like a tennis racket on which I've replaced the grip four times and the strings seven times.

Is it accurate to call it the same racket?

Somewhere in those eyes, however, I can still vaguely see the boy who didn't want to play tennis in the first place.

The boy who wanted to quit.

The boy who did quit many times.

I see that golden-haired boy who hated tennis, and I wonder how he would view this bald man, who still hates tennis, and yet still plays.

Would he be shocked?

Amused?

Would he be proud?

Please let this be over.

I'm not ready for it to be over.

That is an excerpt from the book that we talked about today, which is open the autobiography of Andre Agassi.

This is the book that over the years has been the most requested book for me to cover on the podcast.

I had a hard time putting it down.

It turns out it is as good as everybody told me that it was.

I want to get right to the central point of the book, which is Andre's relationship with his father.

But before I jump into that, there's just a lot of great random ideas in this first chapter that I think are also related to athletics and entrepreneurship.