A Champion's Mind - Pete Sampras

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A CHAMPION’S MIND
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Introduction Chapter 1 1971-1986 Th
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A few years ago, the idea of writin
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A CHAMPION’S MIND
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cheap to build and easy to maintain
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other serious player in the family.
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specialist. Eventually, I also had
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that enabled me to use the same bas
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my training. Cha-ching, cha-ching .
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It didn’t hurt my cause that as c
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My journey to tennis stardom was a
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He had fought his way through the p
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He was courteous, and curious about
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seemed that my serve was getting st
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Andre was bouncing the ball, gettin
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The kids had a “normal” late ad
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Although I missed the Australian Op
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I know what the problem was: theore
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player in the nation. I was the ide
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had I not changed my receiving stan
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of reading between the lines, and T
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The tie worked out exactly as plann
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him to chip and charge. I would wai
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that you can’t wait to get out th
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developed on hard courts, where you
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established icon. We had a tug-of-w
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the people there laughed—somewhat
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way I also took out solid clay-cour
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danger of turning tennis into a sch
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myself, I fought like mad. The New
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inexplicably collapsed. By then Tim
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the eyes lighting up and his lips t
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After that match with Jim, I often
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more than a casual commitment), but
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the first things I did when I set u
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And I’d be thinking, How’s that
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Lyon revisited—a full-on disaster
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It’s a lot like that classic West
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The Aussies have a great tennis tra
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Paul wanted me to attack relentless
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pressure and made guys very uncomfo
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was something on my mind, I would j
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who also put up some good results o
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I wasn’t very flamboyant. They we
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played to an ultimate match—not n
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eyes. I think he saw me as differen
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are and precious, and I really felt
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going an extra round or two at some
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did I ignore the potential benefits
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that sixth straight year-end number
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Page 124 and 125: me. It didn’t hurt that the short
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Page 131 and 132: a coach because he was too much of
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Page 149 and 150: YEVGENY KAFELNIKOV (11-2) . . . I l
Page 151 and 152: PATRICK RAFTER (12-4) . . . Pat was
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