Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

I play tennis for a living even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have.

Tennis is one of the only sports in America where the sport doesn't grow with the size of the person - it just forces you to swallow the whole pill.

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.

If Pete’s (Sampras) child is a girl, my son will like her; if he’s a boy, my son will defeat him.

You have to understand who you are and figure out a way to communicate it. It might be in a different industry, but it's about what pumps the blood through your veins, what makes you excited, what pushes your buttons. And then discovering the best way to communicate that, no matter how big or small; it's what you stand for, what you believe in, and what reflects who you are.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.