Pete Sampras Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“You kind of live and die by the serve.”

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

“All I cared about in tennis was winning.”

“It is nice to walk out on a court to have it packed.”

“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.”

“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.”