A Quote by Pete Sampras
All I cared about in tennis was winning.
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I remember thinking Democrats and liberals were the good guys. They cared about the little guy. They cared about poor people. They cared about minorities.
If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.
People in tennis, they've been in a certain bubble for so long they don't even know who they are, because obviously it's just been tennis, tennis, tennis. And let it be just tennis, tennis, tennis. Be locked into that. But when tennis is done, then what? It's kinda like: Let's enjoy being great at the sport.
I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.
If I cared about who was winning the Oscar, it was when I was a kid when they were giving awards to 'Midnight Cowboy' or 'The Godfather.'
It's too much pressure. You have to think match by match and moment by moment or it drives you to distraction. I'm tired of all the talk about it. Everyone is obsessed with it...If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.
All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.
It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
With more Asian players on the tennis circuit, there's more awareness about tennis and knowledge about various tennis tournaments.
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
I was fortunate that I was an only child. I had two parents who I really cared about, and they cared about me, so I got off to a good start.
Seve wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning.
I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.
I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
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