A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis
by Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo
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Author: Pete Sampras, Peter BodoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-26
ISBN: 030738330X
Number of pages: 306
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Book Reviews of A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis
Book Review: Exactly what I wanted from his book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is certainly the best book of a player that I have read. I have also read Becker's autobiography and Agassi's "Open". But I felt too uncomfortable with all their revelations about their affairs, drugs etc. That's not what I wanted to read about. What I was hoping to read was on how they analyzed opponents, on what their strategies were, how they shaped their game, how they approached the biggest matches of their careers. I didn't want to read all their private stuff. Who cares ?
And Sampras gave me all that. Starting from what made him play tennis, to how he decided to change his game style, what he thought about his opponents etc.
All in all, a great read.
Summary of A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis
Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to let his racket do the talking.Until now.
In A Champion?s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people ?inside his head? finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete resolved from his earliest playing days never to let anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while this single-minded determination led to tennis domination, success didn?t come without a price. The constant pressure of competing on the world?s biggest stage?in the unblinking eye of a media machine hungry for more than mere athletic greatness?took its toll.
Here for the first time Pete speaks freely about what it was like to possess what he calls ?the Gift.? He writes about the personal trials he faced?including the death of a longtime coach and confidant?and the struggles he gutted his way through while being seemingly on top of the world. Among the book?s most riveting scenes are an early devastating loss to Stefan Edberg that led Pete to make a monastic commitment to delivering on his natural talent; a grueling, four-hour-plus match against Alex Corretja during which Pete became seriously ill; fierce on-court battles with rival and friend Andre Agassi; and the triumphant last match of Pete?s career at the finals of the 2002 U.S. Open.
In A Champion?s Mind, one of the most revered, successful, and intensely private players in the history of tennis offers an intimate look at the life of an elite athlete.
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