Pete Sampras Quotes

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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…
• The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play…
• I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
• In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win.
• Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.
• Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.
• I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.
• 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…
• Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.
• It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.
• I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.
• There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.
• 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…
• 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…
• When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.
• You kind of live and die by the serve.
• 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…
• 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…
• In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I…
• My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.

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