Jennifer Capriati Quotes (29 Quotes)

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

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

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

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

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

I was an emotional basket case.

Other matches against her have been like this. I've led 5-1 or 5-2 and then let it slip away. Today I just tried to stay concentrated to the end and not get negative.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

I can't say one way or the other, but I'm not retired by all means. I definitely am eager to return. Something that's not in your control is a whole different story.

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.

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

I think the little difference was that she made a few more mistakes than usual and starting playing better too late in the match,

Believe me, I've had things go against me many times, plenty of times. I deserve to get a call once in a while. One point, I don't think, changed the match.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

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.

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

I'm just happy to be playing and to have the results I've had. If nothing ever happened from here on, I still feel I've had a noteworthy career.

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

It's tough to focus in these conditions. I just hope we don't have to wait all day.

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.