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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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Pete Sampras
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Tennis Player
Washington
District of Columbia
Petros Sampras
Peter Sampras
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It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.
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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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When you struggle winning matches all year and you don't really get into a groove or rhythm, you just can't expect to just come in here and have it click.
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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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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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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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Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.
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What I've done in the game is always going to stick, no matter what happens.
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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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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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Anything can happen out there on any court.
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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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My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.
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It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.
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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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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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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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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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I guess I get my strength from my legs, which are also important in tennis.
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