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Platitudes, cliches, and minimal insight. It appears the reason Sampras never said much was he had little to say. Excitedly, I picked up this book immediately upon its release. A tremendous disappointment. Nothing has changed. What an opportunity to learn about the inner workings of one of the most enigmatic champions of our era, a man who never revealed much, and kept his emotions and thoughts to himself. Alas, the mind of the champion is vacant.
And tha't's right for me, I don't care about gossip and Pete makes it clear in the introduction that this is not a "score-settling" book.Very good, almost obligatory reading if you enjoy tennis. You'll get only glimpses of his feelings outside a tennis court. You'll probably will only read this book if you're a tennis afficionado.If so, you will read it in the blink of an eye, because this is such an entertaining biography about one of the greatest players of all time. Don't get high expectations: it's all about Pete's tennis life.
A big Champion like him can teach that even for him life was not always ALL about winning, but also dealing with losses.Another very important concept that Pete Sampras remarks, are his core values, learned from his family. It is great how he handled the losses. This is a key concept that many people omit and just focus on the results, not the things that took Pete Sampras to be the best Tennis player ever. Pete Sampras was not only a great and exceptional tennis player, but also a great athlete and competitor in Sports History. In this book he gives a very great insight of his life in the top, the struggle that every champion has to carry on.
It was interesting reading about Pete Sampras' different tennis matches, but I was hoping for more about Pete's family and stuff about his life other than tennis.
I am Pete Sampras` fan and of course I enjoyed this book a lot.I knew about most of the matches and important events, so it was really interesting to read Pete`s view of things.And at the end I had a feeling, that the book was too thin:)
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