A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis

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 Championâ€™s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people â€œinside his headâ€ 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 didnâ€™t come without a price. The constant pressure of competing on the worldâ€™s biggest stageâ€”in the unblinking eye of a media machine hungry for more than mere athletic greatnessâ€”took its toll.

Here for the first time Pete speaks freely about what it was like to possess what he calls â€œthe Gift.â€ He writes about the personal trials he facedâ€”including the death of a longtime coach and confidantâ€”and the struggles he gutted his way through while being seemingly on top of the world. Among the bookâ€™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 Peteâ€™s career at the finals of the 2002 U.S. Open.

In A Championâ€™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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown Archetype
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2008-06-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307383297

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown Archetype
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2008-06-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307383297

A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis

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