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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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Pete Sampras
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Tennis Player
Washington
District of Columbia
Petros Sampras
Peter Sampras
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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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The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.
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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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What I've done in the game is always going to stick, no matter what happens.
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