Richard Krajicek Quotes

#1. The top seed this weekend is Richard Krajicek,12 a 6'5" Dutchman who wears a tiny white billed hat in the sun and rushes the net like it owes him money and in general plays like a rabid crane.

David Foster Wallace

#2. 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

#3. I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

Richard Krajicek

#4. 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

#5. I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker.

Richard Krajicek

#6. Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin.

Richard Krajicek

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. My father's coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time.

Richard Krajicek

#10. I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level
Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

KRS-One

#11. God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.

Deepak Chopra

#12. There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch.

Richard Krajicek

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes.

Richard Krajicek

#17. But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

Richard Krajicek

#18. She let herself love me for three minutes.
Can three minutes last forever? I ask myself, but already know the answer.
Probably not, I reply. But maybe they last long enough.

Markus Zusak

#19. Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

Thomas Brooks

#20. Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire.

Richard Krajicek

#21. They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

Rico Carty

#22. He only wished that she were still here. It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily and Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he would never get back.

Cassandra Clare

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of drugs and drink ... others are killing [themselves] with alcohol or heroin overdoses.

Billy Graham

#26. Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.

Richard Krajicek

#27. I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

Emma Watson

#28. But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.

Richard Krajicek

#29. Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

Richard Krajicek

#30. Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

Richard Krajicek

#31. Sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a nine-year-old, to understand my entrapment and escape it... Where did I find the courage to rebel, to change my life, live alone? I don't want to over-estimate all this, but damn it, I love that nine-year-old, whoever in hell he was.

Ray Bradbury

#32. For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

Richard Krajicek

#33. Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

Richard Krajicek