I Got Your Back: Part 1

I never planned to coach either Andre or Andy. Thank God for Andre Agassi. He knew I wanted to be a coach before I did. I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I certainly never planned to become a coach to two of the greatest players of our time. Agassi and then later Andy Roddick. ( More on Andy in upcoming articles). After all, I'd made a few million dollars in prize money during my playing career. And a few million more from endorsements. I could've hung it up and walked away-raised my family, managed my investments, and done all right. But in March of I994, my life turned one of those corners that life sometimes turns. I was playing at the Lipton Championships in Key Biscayne, Florida, just up the road from Miami. I was thirty-two years old, and I was still hitting a pretty decent ball, good enough to be ranked number 28 in the world. Then, one afternoon when I went out to warm up for my match, I ran into Andre on the practice court. We knew each other pretty well from the tour, and even though he was almost ten years younger than...