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'He played off that image-is-everything scenario,' McEnroe said of Agassi. The only true turnaround in the same neighborhood as Agassi, McEnroe said, could be a chubby boxer with one truly effective grilling machine: George Foreman. No one could better comment on one bad boy than another former bad boy: John McEnroe on Agassi. Think Terrell Owens becoming a beloved national treasure in about 10 years, and you get the general idea. He was hardly the popular figure among his colleagues and the public in the late 1980s and early '90s, but he managed to complete perhaps the most dramatic public turnaround among sports figures. The tributes to Agassi, the person, are perhaps more numerous in his final days on the tour than accolades about the player. It's a great environment to be your last.' They made me a better tennis player and a better person. They helped me grow personally and professionally. I grew up, it feels like, in front of New Yorkers. I really didn't think about it beyond where I really had some of my best memories.

They included the gripping 22-shot rally in 1995 against Sampras and an electric five-set quarterfinal victory last year over James Blake on the way to the final against Roger Federer. Open? The wins, the losses in four finals. Once there, he survived major deficits four times, including in the final against Andrei Medvedev. Agassi became one of five men to win all four majors in a career, although he nearly didn't make the trip to Paris in 1999 because of a sore shoulder. The French Open? The final piece of the Slam set. The Australian Open? The scene of his most successful Slam, the place where he won four times and once famously took the plunge into the not-so-clean Yarra River.

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