A Champion`s Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis 9780307383303

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Автор: Sampras Pete (Пит Сэмпрас)
Название: A Champion`s Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis
Перевод названия: Пит Сампрас: Мышление чемпиона. Уроки жизни из тенниса
ISBN: 9780307383303
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Издательство: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 030738330X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 306
Вес: 0.26 кг.
Дата издания: 31.05.2009
Язык: English
Размер: 203.70 x 136.10 x 17.50
Поставляется из: США
Описание: 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 Champions 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 didnt come without a price. The constant pressure of competing on the worlds 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 books 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 Petes career at the finals of the 2002 U.S. Open.
In A Champions 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.

From the Hardcover edition.

A Champion`s Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis, Sampras Pete