Pete Sampras Quotes

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

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• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

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• A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

  

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• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

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• We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

  

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• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

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• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

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• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

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• Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

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• My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

  

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• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

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• The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

  

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• The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

  

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• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

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• Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

  

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• A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

  

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• You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

  

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• Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.

  

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• On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think, 'My God - people really care.'

  

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• You need to just understand where the ball is and how to use your body. Timing your jump the right way is crucial. Learn how to use your body to shield the receiver and box him out, again, much like a rebound. Trying to beat a receiver to a ball can be a lot like you're posting him up. Rebounding is great practice because you can employ those skills - body position, leverage, timing - a lot more than you might in a football game or practice if the quarterback doesn't look your way.

  

  Antonio Cromartie
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• Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • Game
  • Fall
  • Practice