Pete Sampras Quotes

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

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• I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • American
  • Parents

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Way
  • Wife

• I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • Los Angeles

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Passion

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Band
  • Chicago
  • Veteran

• After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Time
  • War
  • Law

• There are times I can't even figure myself out.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Myself
  • Times
  • Figure

• If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Think
  • Me
  • Crazy

• All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

  

  Randal Cremer
  • People
  • War
  • Control

• Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Me

• I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. That's why I tend to work with the same people; I really befriend them.

  

  John Hughes
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and c, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Wise
  • Everything
  • Ugly

• There's so much love that has been sent to that area ... And I'm proud to be one of the senders. But I'm a receiver, as well.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Proud
  • Area
  • Receiver

• As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.

  

  Richard Marx
  • Song
  • Winning

• If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • Business
  • Community

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

  

  Pete Sampras
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