A Champion's Mind - Pete Sampras

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For my wife, Bridgette, and boys, Christian and Ryan: you have fulfilled me in a way that no number of Grand Slam titles or tennis glory ever could
Introduction Chapter 1 1971–1986 The Tennis Kid Chapter 2 1986–1990 A Fairy Tale in New York Chapter 3 1990–1991 That Ton of Bricks Chapter 4 1992 My Conversation with Commitment Chapter 5 1993–1994 Grace Under Fire Chapter 6 1994–1995 The Floodgates of Glory Chapter 7 1996 My Warrior Moment Chapter 8 1997–1998 Wimbledon Is Forever Chapter 9 1999–2001 Catching Roy Chapter 10 2001–2002 One for Good Measure
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Page 7 and 8: A few years ago, the idea of writin
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Page 12 and 13: cheap to build and easy to maintain
Page 14 and 15: other serious player in the family.
Page 16 and 17: specialist. Eventually, I also had
Page 18 and 19: that enabled me to use the same bas
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Page 22 and 23: It didn’t hurt my cause that as c
Page 25 and 26: My journey to tennis stardom was a
Page 27 and 28: He had fought his way through the p
Page 29 and 30: He was courteous, and curious about
Page 31 and 32: seemed that my serve was getting st
Page 33: Andre was bouncing the ball, gettin
Page 36 and 37: The kids had a “normal” late ad
Page 38 and 39: Although I missed the Australian Op
Page 40 and 41: I know what the problem was: theore
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Page 44: had I not changed my receiving stan
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Page 49 and 50: The tie worked out exactly as plann
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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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distraction that blunted my focus.
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intimacy (for 2009, Centre Court wi
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But over time I came to understand
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ound-robin was Andre, and he beat m
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Deep down, I felt I was going to wi
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Early in the match, Federer was ser
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me. It didn’t hurt that the short
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his forehand, I could start doing d
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Unless you’re very young in your
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a coach because he was too much of
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The assignment to Court 2 was made
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going to retire, suggest that you s
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In my last tune-up before the U.S.
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Slam final: Andre Agassi. The Andre
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As I threw my arms in the air after
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But don’t worry, I can handle it.
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I did to offset the threat represen
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YEVGENY KAFELNIKOV (11-2) . . . I l
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PATRICK RAFTER (12-4) . . . Pat was
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I would like to thank my parents, S
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of 1995, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, re
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Junior division of, ref1 of 1991, r
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nsdorp, Robert: forehand and ground
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ground game of, ref1, ref2, ref3, r
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