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A Champion’s Mind audiobook
- By: Pete Sampras
- Narrator: Mark Deakins
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Sports
- Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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A Champion’s Mind Audiobook Summary
Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to let his racket do the talking.
Until now.
In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people “inside his head” finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete resolved from his earliest playing days never to let anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while this single-minded determination led to tennis domination, success didn’t come without a price. The constant pressure of competing on the world’s biggest stage—in the unblinking eye of a media machine hungry for more than mere athletic greatness—took its toll.
Here for the first time Pete speaks freely about what it was like to possess what he calls “the Gift.” He writes about the personal trials he faced—including the death of a longtime coach and confidant—and the struggles he gutted his way through while being seemingly on top of the world. Among the book’s most riveting scenes are an early devastating loss to Stefan Edberg that led Pete to make a monastic commitment to delivering on his natural talent; a grueling, four-hour-plus match against Alex Corretja during which Pete became seriously ill; fierce on-court battles with rival and friend Andre Agassi; and the triumphant last match of Pete’s career at the finals of the 2002 U.S. Open.
In A Champion’s Mind, one of the most revered, successful, and intensely private players in the history of tennis offers an intimate look at the life of an elite athlete.
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A Champion’s Mind Full Details
| Narrator | Mark Deakins |
| Length | 8 hours 56 minutes |
| Author | Pete Sampras |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781415949610 |
Subjects
The publisher of the A Champion’s Mind is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: tennis gifts, tennis books for kids, sports, biography, sport, biographies, tennis, autobiographies, sports books, books for dad, biographies of famous people, autobiography books, sports biographies, sports book, memoirs, memoir, autobiography, tennis books, tennis book, sport books, memoir books, gifts for tennis players, biographies and memoirs, cycling, running, football, fitness, soccer, music, marathon, true story, baseball, golf, dad gifts, bike, basketball, dad books, outdoors, health, true stories, inspirational, olympics, Biography & Autobiography, Sports, Sports & Recreation, Tennis, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Sports
Additional info
The publisher of the A Champion’s Mind is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781415949610.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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