Capriati Quotes & Sayings

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning. — Jennifer Capriati

This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected. — Jennifer Capriati

I was an emotional basket case. — Jennifer Capriati

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me. — Jennifer Capriati

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well. — Jennifer Capriati

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am. — Jennifer Capriati

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there. — Jennifer Capriati

To American ears, the Filipino pronunciation of the word "evacuate" sounded more like "bokweet." They soon further Americanized it to "buckwheat," which would become guerilla slang meaning to place as much distance between oneself and the Japanese as possible. — John D. Lukacs

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more. — Jennifer Capriati

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that. — Jennifer Capriati

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards. — Jennifer Capriati

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say. — Jennifer Capriati

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect. — Jennifer Capriati

A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state. — Frederick The Great

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too. — Jennifer Capriati

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference. — Jennifer Capriati

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways. — Jennifer Capriati

I feel life I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to live the past behind. — Jennifer Capriati

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion. — Jennifer Capriati

You've claimed me, little firecracker. You kicked a pair of two hundred pound men's asses. I will never get over that. You kicked my whores out. Pete told me. You staked your claim on me, even before you realized I'd staked mine already." He fists my hair and pulls me close to his lips. "I'm yours now ... Even if I screw this up, I'll still be your screw-up. — Katy Evans

The point is, they have a public thing against the overweight and the underbeautiful. Those are my people there, Jared. Those are the people who pull the curtain and write the plays and make the costumes - those are the people who make the dream but who don't live it on the front of the stage. Anyone who knocks those people is not going to get my business. Or yours, because you're better than that. — Amy Lane

My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter ... — Savannah Guthrie

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players. — Jennifer Capriati

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things. — Jennifer Capriati

Lessons: Diversity = resilience. Abundance = resilience. to survive catastrophe, you need a surplus, a reservoir, money under the mattress, food in the fridge. If you're already starving, you won't survive a famine. Take the world down to the bone and the only thing that flourishes are boneyards; the only thing that expands is collapse. — Carl Safina

I'm always reading something. — John Oates

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. — Lois McMaster Bujold

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind. — Henry Ward Beecher

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind. — Jennifer Capriati

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible. — Jennifer Capriati

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely. — Jennifer Capriati

Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid. — Jennifer Capriati

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies. — Jennifer Capriati

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape. — Jennifer Capriati

My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one [is that] I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights [of] people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill. — Ted Nugent

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity. — Jennifer Capriati

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with. — Tom Sturridge

But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well. — Jennifer Capriati

Jobs put his hand on Ellison's left shoulder, pulled him so close that their noses almost touched, and said, Larry, this is why it's really important that I'm your friend. You don't need any more money. — Walter Isaacson