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Pete Sampras
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Tennis Player
Washington
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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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I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis.
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Anything can happen out there on any court.
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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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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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My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.
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I'm staying in shape, working out.
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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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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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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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People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.
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Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.
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I'm not worried about the weekend, I'm worried about Saturday.
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If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.
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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 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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A champion is suppose to hate to lose, and it wasn't like I was ever crazy about the idea. But I learned to deal with losing without having my spirit or confidence broken, which would help immensely over time, not just in the big picture but even in specific matches when I found myself in a jam. Fear of losing is a terrible thing.
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I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
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It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.
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