Richard Krajicek Quotes

• 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, Top 100

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

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  Desire, Being The Best, Best Ever

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• I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

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  Thinking, Perfection, Tennis

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• 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

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  Jobs, Mean, Player

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• 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

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  Winning, Play, Looks

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• 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

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  Memories, Wife, Tennis

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

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  Couple, Years, Tennis

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• 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

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  Years, Games, Elbows

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

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  Giving Up, Quality, Fighter

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

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  Wimbledon, Six

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• I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes

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  Athlete, Player, Bigs

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

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  Thinking, Loses

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• 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

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  Games, Guy, Weakness

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• 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

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  Games, Tennis, Quality

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• 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

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  Pain, Elbows, Able

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• Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin

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  Court

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• Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch

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  Fun, Style, Watches

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

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  Player, Guy, Borg

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