High Life Issue #5

品 22 #5 2017 年 2 月 “Longines were really great to my foundation and my mission years ago when it started,” Agassi recalls. “To me, business is easy but people are complicated so when you find good people you hold onto them and grow with them. Longines has been very innovative in how they communicate our messaging in terms of what it is we’re trying to do, so I’ve really enjoyed working with them and representing them. “I think they reflect a lot of what I stand for too both in spirit and in culture, as well as how they execute that internally as a company and outwardly towards the consumer. I really respect that. They also do a lot for tennis – the sport that gave us our opportunity and our lives. I really love working with them.” As for family, Agassi and wife Steffi Graf – herself one of the all-time greats of the game with 22 career Grand Slam titles (behind only Australia’s Margaret Court) – find themselves in a unique position when it comes to recognizing the important things in life. The pair began dating during Agassi’s second coming and were married in 2001, but these days rarely speak of the 至于家庭，阿加西和妻子施特菲•格拉芙在对人生重要事 情的认识上，处在一个特殊的位置。格拉芙亦是网球史上最伟 大的运动员之一，职业生涯拥有22个大满贯冠军，仅次于澳大 利亚的玛格丽特•考特。 这对夫妇开始约会是在阿加西王者归来之后，并于2001 年步入婚姻殿堂。但如今很少提及的是，两人的战绩总和包含 了30个大满贯冠军和167个赛事冠军。 阿加西称，“作为父母，这些数字及在球场上取得的成绩 的确引人瞩目，但我们亦是在用同样的精神，来做目前来说更 加重要的事 － 抚育我们的孩子。 “孩子们清楚我们昔日的成就，但他们也看到了我们的生 活，我们的重心和我们的教育理念，即他们如何去投入所关心 的事，无论是什么。 “任何花时间和他们在一起的人都会惊异地发现，在这样 的成长背景之下，他们保持了多么平衡的生活状态。明显摆在 人们眼前的是，他们是两个以前相对成功的运动员的孩子；但 人们没有看到的是，他们有机会意识到高调的职业体育生涯并 不如人们想象得那么光鲜。 “造就你人生轨迹和价值的，是如何去过每一天。” fact that their combined achievements include 30 Grand Slams and 167 tour titles. “It’s impressive when you see it on paper, what we’ve stored up as two parents in terms of trophies or accomplishments inside the lines, but the very spirit that helped us do that is the same spirit that’s very focussed on what’s more important now – raising our children and the context of it all,” Agassi says. “I’m sure our kids are aware of what we achieved but they also see what we’ve lived and they see our priorities and what we hold them accountable to, which is how they choose to engage with whatever they claim to care about. “I would think that any person that spends time with them would be pretty surprised by how well balanced they are in their context. The part that stands out to people is that they are the children of two former, relatively successful athletes, but the part people don’t see is that they also have the luxury of realizing that the high profile of the sporting world is not all it’s cracked up to be. “It’s how you live every day that makes anything that’s worthwhile happen.”