Tennis teaches you not to be distracted from being in the very present at every moment that you're out there competing.
It's more important to be present in life than even on a tennis court.
That's eight time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi on everything and nothing to do with tennis.
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this is the interview.
I'm David Marchese.
When I was in college, I had a poster of Al Pacino in Scarface hanging up on my wall,
and I know
that a Scarface poster is up there with Bob Marley and Dark side of the Moon as far as cliched dorm room art goes.
But I promise that my love for Pacino and that movie were real.
The sheer bravado he exuded as Tony Mont was irresistible,
especially for me at a time in my life when bravado was,
let's just say, not exactly my default mode.
Also, like a lot of people who have that poster, I just thought it looked really cool.
I came to Pacino's work in kind of a backwards way.
I fell in love with his acting when I was a teenager in the 90s,
and that's when he was regularly popping up in pretty mainstream movies like Scent of Woman and Heat.
I didn't yet fully appreciate him as an icon of 1970s cinema who helped bring a new level of emotional intensity and real to screen acting.
But those 70s roles are, of course, where Pacino made his name.
Think of the frazzled, yearning Sonny Wartsick in Dog Day Afternoon,