#eve

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#forever #golfers #hasn #mechanics #swing

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#drained #event #golf #i #make

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#event #figure #going #had #i

I hate to lose, and I do whatever I can to win, and if it is ugly, it is ugly. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#i #i can #i do #lose #ugly

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#cup #davis #davis cup #every #i

It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#any #athlete #athletes #believe #bit

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#communicating #everything #experienced #felt #human

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#language #never #no respect #people #polite

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#book #dead #genius #man #masterpiece

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#blunder #cheer #dangers #every #fail