Richard Krajicek Quotes

• 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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  Tags in Pain, Too, Still

• 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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  Tags in End, Back, Game

• Contrasting styles is always the most fun to watch.

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  Tags in Fun, Watch, Styles

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

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  Tags in Play, Difficult, Desire

• 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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  Tags in Right, Mean

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

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  Tags in Guys, Players, Gross

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

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  Tags in Best, Ever

• 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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  Tags in Bad, Off, Played

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

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  Tags in Big, Players, Liked

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

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  Tags in Ever, Lose, Anybody

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

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  Tags in Greatest, Times

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

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  Tags in Fighter, Beat

• 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.

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  Tags in Women, Said

• 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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  Tags in Better, Game, Look

• 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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  Tags in Back, Winning, Look

• My father’s coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time.

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Help, Might

• 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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  Tags in Game, Felt, Guys

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

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  Tags in Court, Presence, Adrenalin

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

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  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Play, High

• 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.

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  Tags in Tough

Richard Krajicek (21)

Birth:	6th December, 1971
Nationality:	Dutch
Profession:	Tennis Player

About

Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek is a Dutch former professional tennis player. In 1996 he won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, the only Dutch player to have done so. In the quarterfinals of that tournament he defeated Pete Sampras. This was Sampras' only singles defeat at Wimbledon between 1993 and 2001.

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