Peter Sampras Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• It’s not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you’re 33, 34, and you don’t have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.

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• I’ve worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it’s a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.

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• I’ve got a great wife, a great life.

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• I’ve been into golf, trying to get into the gym to stay somewhat fit. I’ve got two boys now, they’re active kids.

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• I’m staying in shape, working out.

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• I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

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• I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn’t like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

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• I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly.

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• I don’t look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

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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 could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that’s not who I am.

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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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• Andre Agassi was my rival in the ’90s, and I think as we got older we sort of transcended the game. He was probably the best player I ever played over my career. There’s a list of players that were tough, but Andre, certainly, he was the most unique.

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• All I cared about in tennis was winning.

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• After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

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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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Peter Sampras (34)

Birth:	12th August, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Tennis Player

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