he said if i had to do this all over again, i would do the same exact thing except it wouldn't be tennis. i wouldn't let you play tennis. it would be golf or baseball. so i said to him, why golf or baseball? because you can play longer and you can make more money. and i said, you know what? god bless you, man. god bless you. he was clear then. he's clear now and we should all be so lucky to know ourselves so well that we can rationalize other things. for my father, he knows where he stands. >> but, i mean, doesn't that -- a, to put the effort into something you spent three years working on, it's got to hurt to not have -- i wrote a book and my mom was the first person to read it, you know, and said nothing but nice things about it, which is kind of what you want to hear from your parent, yeah? >> you do. there are a lot of things i would have probably wanted with that. but at the same time there comes a time in your life when you stop wanting and you start wanting to understand. >> right. >> and i spent a lot of time understanding. >> the paperback for his book is now out. my big 360 interview with andre agassi continues. confessions off the court and more of the secrets he kept from his fans. with capital one's venture card,