Richard Krajicek famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995
-- Richard Krajicek

#Winning #Play #Wimbledon
Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.
-- Richard Krajicek

#Giving Up #Quality #Fighter
I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.
-- Richard Krajicek

#Thinking #Perfection #Want
But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game
-- Richard Krajicek

#Years #Games #Elbows
For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court
-- Richard Krajicek

#Couple #Years #Tennis
I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs
-- Richard Krajicek

#Pigs #May #Said
But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest
-- Richard Krajicek

#Wimbledon #Six
There are a lot of good memories, and because I was injured, during the rehab, I met my wife. The tennis was very good but the injuries were good for something too
-- Richard Krajicek

#Memories #Wife #Tennis
I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes
-- Richard Krajicek

#Athlete #Player #Volley
I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker
-- Richard Krajicek

#Thinking
Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire
-- Richard Krajicek

#Desire #Being The Best #Best Ever
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that
-- Richard Krajicek

#Jobs #Mean #Player
I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure
-- Richard Krajicek

#Games #Guy #Pressure
Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to
-- Richard Krajicek

#Games #Tennis #Quality
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things
-- Richard Krajicek

#Pain #Able #Too Much
Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin
-- Richard Krajicek

#Court
Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch
-- Richard Krajicek

#Fun #Style #Watches
Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.
-- Richard Krajicek

#Player #Guy #Borg

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