Motivation Quote by Guy Forget

Forget is naming the quiet truth tennis mythology often skips: matchups aren’t moral verdicts, they’re physics. The sport loves to talk about “who wanted it more,” but his line drags the conversation back to mechanics - the way certain skills short-circuit your preferred patterns before you even get to the part where bravery matters.

The specific intent is practical and unromantic. He’s explaining why beating some opponents feels like pushing a boulder uphill even when the rankings look “close.” Michael Chang and Andre Agassi weren’t just hard to hit through; they were specialists in denying the first punch. An elite return does more than start the point. It steals time, turns your serve from a weapon into a liability, and forces you to play extra balls from uncomfortable positions. That’s why “style” is doing so much work here: it’s shorthand for the geometry of the rally and the psychological tax of never getting clean payoffs.

The subtext is a small admission of helplessness that athletes rarely allow themselves. “They played so well in defence” isn’t praise; it’s an acknowledgement that his best intentions kept getting recycled into one more shot. Against great defenders, you don’t just have to win points - you have to win patience, margins, and ego. Chang’s speed and grit, Agassi’s early ball-striking and return positioning: different aesthetics, same outcome. Your game plan gets edited in real time.

Context matters too. Forget came up in an era when serve-and-volley and forward pressure were still central options. Facing return-and-redirect giants like Agassi meant the old formulas didn’t fail dramatically; they failed quietly, point after point, until you were playing their sport instead of yours.