Time & Perspective Quote by Andre Agassi

Agassi is describing desire with a grown-up vocabulary: admiration first, attraction second, and both filtered through distance. The line reads like a confession from someone who’s spent years being treated as a brand and is trying to prove to himself that his feelings weren’t just another impulse. He’s not praising a vibe; he’s cataloging architecture: “pillars,” “loyalties,” “relationships.” That choice of words is telling. It’s the language of stability from a man whose public life was famously unstable, whose career rewarded reinvention and whose fame invited chaos. He’s drawn to the idea of a life that holds.

The hedging matters, too: “I could sort of see” and “from a distance” signal both humility and self-protection. He’s admitting he’s working off an outline, not a full portrait. That’s how celebrity crushes happen: you fall for what’s legible from afar, the parts that survive the glare of publicity. In that sense, the quote is less romantic than it is aspirational. He wants to be near a person whose commitments look sturdier than his own.

Then he undercuts the earnestness with a blunt add-on: “and also the looks.” It’s not crass; it’s corrective. Agassi refuses the neat narrative where respect cancels lust. The appeal is double-barreled: moral gravity plus physical spark. The subtext is a man trying to reconcile two hungers - for grounding and for glamour - and admitting, without polish, that he didn’t have to choose.