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My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.

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Pete Sampras
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Tennis Player
Washington
District of Columbia
Petros Sampras
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I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.
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People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.
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I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.
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People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
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I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.
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I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so.
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By putting pressure on myself to develop a great game, I had less pressure to win. These days, I tell kids that the way I grew up, it wasn't about winning. It was about playing well, about playing the right way. That approach helped me enjoy the game and develop mine to its maximum potential.
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I've got a great wife, a great life.
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I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.
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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be.
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I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.
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Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.
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As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I'll continue to play.
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I can't just wake up and watch TV and do nothing. I need a day off working out, seeing the wife, play a little golf, see my kids.
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When you go through certain moments of your career and you're struggling, it just takes time. Time heals, when you're a little bit down.
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It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.
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I feel much more respected in Europe than I do in the States from the press and from the people. Americans expect me to win every match I play.
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Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.
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There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.
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