"Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court."

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Source : Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo (2008). “A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis”, p.10, Crown Archetype

Pete Sampras

#Careers Quotes #Focus Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”
“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my fatherâ€™s had become, during his earlier years of a millerâ€™s life.”
“I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.”

Source : Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House
“While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!”

Source : John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.56
“I was working full time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy. At one point a month had gone by, and Marc - my then boyfriend, now husband, and I hadn't gone out on a date. I was like, I don't want to be this person. I want to be a person who cares where she's investing her time and energy. And I want to be a good wife, daughter, and friend.”

Source : "Think You Know Chelsea Clinton? Think Again" by Genevieve Roth, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2013.
“When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.”
“I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.”
“A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.”

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