Quotes by Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras

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.

Crazy

Hate

Ideas

A couple hundred people around, and I’m shaking.

Couple

Hundred

People

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.

Passion

Sports

Winning

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

Tennis

Winning

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

Lying

Sports

Wrestling

Anything can happen out there on any court.

Anything Can Happen

Court

Happens

As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I’ll continue to play.

Long

Play

Winning

Baseball is America’s pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

America

Baseball

Records

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.

Kids

Sports

Success

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.

Tennis

Thinking

Winning

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Quotes by Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras

A couple hundred people around, and I’m shaking.

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.

All I cared about in tennis was winning.

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

Anything can happen out there on any court.

As long as I feel like I can win majors and contend, I’ll continue to play.

Baseball is America’s pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

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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