Pete Sampras Thinking Quotations

Choking is being in a position to win, and then experiencing some critical failure of nerve or spirit. That never happened to me. And I can't help but think it was because I was never afraid to lose.

I'm not going to give in to the critics. I'm going to stop on my own terms, not on when someone else thinks I should.

There should be more of an off-season in the game. I think you need to have less tournaments, more of a break at the end of the year so guys can recover.

I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so.

I don't think it really matters, who plays first. Whatever they do, they do.

I want to end my career on my terms, not on what people think I should do.

The way I look at the top five, (Rod) Laver, (Roger) Federer, myself, Borg and (Ivan) Lendl. I think those five guys dominated their generations better than anyone. Maybe Roger will dominate better than any one of the other four. Maybe I put Andre (Agassi) as kind of six through 10 with, you know, (John) McEnroe and (Jimmy) Connors, kind of those guys. That's kind of how I see it.