Pete Sampras Quotes
"When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Want, Years)
"You kind of live and die by the serve."
- Pete Sampras
"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 great for a set, but then less."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Difference, Play)
"Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Home, People, Country, states, Tennis, United, Will, World)
"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 player, not a celebrity."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: People, Celebrity, Comedy, Tennis)
"It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Court)
"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 was drained. Mentally, not physically."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Golf, Mistakes, Tennis)
"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 now, it is too much tennis for me."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Now, Play, Tennis, Years)
"I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Talking, Tennis)
"I don't know how I do it, I really don't."
- Pete Sampras
"I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Time, Majority)
"Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Tennis, Years)
"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."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: People)
"Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble."
- Pete Sampras
(Related: Practice, Trouble)