Pete Sampras Quotes

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

I have nothing to do with anything that happens to me.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random. So truthfully, again, do I wish it weren't me? Absolutely. I still can't make that logistic jump to thinking there's a reason why it shouldn't be me.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

It doesn't matter how anything happens.

Anything that happens, happens.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you?

Does fate ever play by the rules?

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.