Pete Sampras Quotes

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.

If someone paid me a million dollars to drink a glass of milk, I wouldn't do it; maybe that's because I don't need the money.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.

Living simply makes loving simple.

I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

I'm not really a person that needs to make a lot of money. The money is great for an easy life, but at the same time, it's not very important.

I'm humble, because I live quite humbly.

Let me tell you something: I'm a simple person who lives a simple life.

I'm not a guy who's about the material things.

I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.

I think tennis is very different than most of the other sports when you have the opportunity to go pro. For me, it was pretty simple. Tennis was always an individual sport, and your direct results determined where you could go and what you could do.

I do live a simple existence.

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

I don't live in a big house. I'm not real extravagant or anything. I just like to be regular.

I don't care about having a fancy car. I don't have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of people have where I would need to make a $1 million a fight.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because they're spending a lot of money. If we can't get a show up and deliver with what we almost intrinsically have in our brains and our pockets, then I don't really want to do it.

The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.