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

Pete Sampras is the best tennis player in the history of tennis to this day. This book reveals his life in ways he never showed publicly as a player. It is truly a great story. He was a shy boy with a lot of potential that worked incredibly hard to be the best in the world. Managing his professional and personal life was one of the keys for his success. There are a lot of behaviors that can be learned to be disciplined from this book. I recommend it to everyone looking to be succesful in life.

I am a fan of Pete Sampras, so I enjoyed this book and got to see some insight into his life. He gives great details about certain big matches, and his coaches. The only criticism, and this is a very minor criticism, is he did not go into his personal life that much, he pretty much wrote only about his tennis life. One answer to that is tennis was his life. I believe this i one ofthe better bio books on tennis players.

Great story of a great athlete, Pete is a great champion and yet a
normal and humble kind of guy... his words are sincere and the book is a
good read...

I've been an avid Petenik since the kid won the U.S. Open at the tender age of 19. I was living in NYC at the time and got to see him play at Flushing Meadows just once during the first Grand Slam that he won. This book took me back to that time (and earlier), and walked me through the fantastic wins and frustrating losses that I watched on TV. As a result, I am rummaging through my vast piles of video tapes of his matches and converting them to DVDs so I can enjoy them again without worrying that they will fall apart.

This book gives great insight into how to achieve your goals. From a young age Sampras knew what he wanted to achieve and worked hard to accomplish it.
The book is for Sampras and tennis lovers. It focuses on specific matches and the story behind them.
Great summer sports read.