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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
Baseball
Absolutely
Record
Records
Huge
America
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Pastime

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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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Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.
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I'm staying in shape, working out.
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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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I don't think it really matters, who plays first. Whatever they do, they do.
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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 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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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 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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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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Media access to us is more regulated than in golf.
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I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.
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Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser.
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My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.
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Players aren't quite as intimidated by my name.
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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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