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Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

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Pete Sampras
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Tennis Player
Washington
District of Columbia
Petros Sampras
Peter Sampras
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Baseball
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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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For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.
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I've got a great wife, a great life.
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I'm staying in shape, working out.
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I don't think it really matters, who plays first. Whatever they do, they do.
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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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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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It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.
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When I committed to playing a little tennis in some exhibitions, it was the best thing for me. It got me in shape. It got me out of the house. It got me doing something I love to do.
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Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.
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I don`t know why, but I love the dog eat dog nature of tennis. It`s real, it`s brutal and there`s no hiding place - it's like a one to one street fight. I love the intensity that comes with knowing you walk off court either a winner or a loser. It`s daunting but very exciting. There is no one to blame except yourself, no one cares who comes second.
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Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
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Tennis is seen all around the world if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.
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You kind of live and die by the serve.
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There should be more of an off-season in the game. I think you need to have less tournaments, more of a break at the end of the year so guys can recover.
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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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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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What I've done in the game is always going to stick, no matter what happens.
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I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis.
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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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