Richard Krajicek Professions : Tennis playerBorn : December 6, 1971 Browse All Authors Top 22 quotes by Richard Krajicek 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 top-100maypigs Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire Richard Krajicek best-everbeing-the-bestdesire 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 winningplaylooks Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him. Richard Krajicek fighterqualitygiving-up I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it. Richard Krajicek tennisperfectionthinking 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 elbowsgamesyears For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court Richard Krajicek tenniscoupleyears But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest Richard Krajicek sixwimbledon 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 tenniswifememories I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes Richard Krajicek bigsathleteplayer I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker Richard Krajicek losesthinking 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 playerjobsmean 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 weaknessguygames 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 tennisqualitygames 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 elbowsablepain 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 stylefunwatches Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players. Richard Krajicek borgguyplayer 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 qualityplayjoyway 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 challengebigliketough Similar Authors Gabriela Sabatini tennis-player Bill Tilden tennis-player Boris Becker tennis-player Anna Kournikova tennis-player Arthur Ashe tennis-player Arantxa Sanchez Vicario tennis-playerAll Authors
