N E W Q U O T E S
"I played Kafelnikov, Joyce, and I thought, 'Oh, I'll probably lose
this section. I'll probably pick up a little bit of money and fly home.' Then I
won another one and I said, 'Looks like it's my shout for beers tonight, boys.'
So we went out and had a few beers, and I kept shouting beers every night."
"It was time for me to get going. I'd like to get at least back to
the 20's where I was before, but let's hope I can get on further than
that."
"I started sobering up halfway through the first set. I thought, 'I'm
really going to embarass myself.' The first five games were the hardest."
"In Paris I have to make sure I improve my game in
every match I play, that is if I get to play a lot of matches."
"When I was coming up, you get a little bit
spoilt. This is how it's supposed to be. All of a sudden you have these people
around that want a piece of you. You start being a little bit absent minded, a
little bit rude, because everyone's trying to take a piece of you." "This is the best I've played in my career.
There's no doubt about that. This is a big milestone in my life. I am very
happy." "It was hard for me to control myself. I was a
little bit shaky. Even now it hasn't settled in. For me to be in the
quarterfinals of a Grand Slam, who would have...I mean, I never would have said
that." "Mentally, I've come to the conclusion I haven't
got much time left, to relax and enjoy it...My whole game, a lot is revolved
around my physical ability, I guess. And once that's gone, you know, my sort of
game is gone. So, you know, I just feel my body is hurting already, so I want to
try and enjoy it as long as I can." "At least I'm coming in second place, at least
I'm making finals. If I had to make a choice of making the finals or losing
second round, or losing finals or losing ten second rounds, I know what I'm
going to take. At least I'm getting there and taking the opportunity." "I know I can beat them, but I'm not expecting to
go and breeze through these guys." "The fourth round, packed stadium, it is very
rewarding for me. The buzz out there was hard to explain. It was electric." "I always felt like I could lose. I did, I did. I
felt like sure, everything is going great. But I also felt like, 'These guys can
kick my bum as well.' I think the best way to take the stress of it is to just
let fate take hold, fate or whatever." "I don't want to change from this experience.
It's been a great experience, but if I fall to 50 in the world and I'm happy,
it's a lot better than being number 1 and a pain in the arse. I just want to
keep being a happy person, you know, just enjoy life." "He's just too good. I don't know what I have to
do to beat him. Hit him on the head when we change sides, I guess. Losing to him
isn't getting to be fun." "I mean everyone wants to knock me off anyway.
But right now, yeah, they really want to kill me!" "I'll be going on painkillers to get through the
next few weeks. I've got problems with my wrist, elbow, knees, and shoulder, but
that's no big deal really." "I want to find a deserted beach somewhere and
lie on it for hours on end." "It's amazing what happens when you win the US
Open! You know, and before that I was no one, and when you win the US Open and
all of a sudden you are the sexiest whatever running around. That's a matter of
personal opinion."
-Would you complain if chicks wanted to go after you? It's nice
having that image. I remember when women wouldn't look twice at
me."
-"Money is nice, but I came into tennis thinking that if I can
buy a two-bedroom home, I'm ahead of 90 percent of the people in
the world."
-"With eight brothers and sisters, you can't have much
arrogance."
-"The most incredible moment multiplied by five. It was a dream
come true." on winning the U.S. Open in 1997
-"You try and get the most out of what you're given, and you have to enjoy the moment."
-"'Good looking' is the sort of term that I don't particularly
like,I try to never give myself encouragement like that."
-"I think if you're happy in your work, I think you're happy in
life. But if you put it in the big picture, I'm
still very happy."
-"Being confined to a wheelchair. As someone who has pursued
athletics his whole life, I think it would be a real tough
transition for me." Pat's biggest fear
-"There are a lot of distractions at the US Open. Everything has
to be going your way to win a Grand Slam. There's no doubt about
it. But someone like Pete (Sampras) can do it because he's simply
a better player than everybody else. But someone like me, I need
things to be going my way like they were last
year."
-"I am heterosexual you know" about wearing tight shorts in this picture.
-"It’s no good raping people, you know, raping them for what they’ve got."
- "I had a go at him." about being yelled at by Todd Woodbridge's
girlfriend because Pat and Philipoussis were whupping him.
(Woodbridge's girlfriend was heard yelling "You're a disgrace!")
Pat came out looking like the good guy, of course..how could
anyone hate him?)
-"Now I feel year last wasn't such a fluke. Now I can look at
people and think I have done it again." on his back-to-back win
of the U.S. Open
-"I had a day off -- I sat down and ate rubbish and watched
cricket on television," After his loss to Lleyton Hewitt in the
Adidas International
-"Nothing wrong with that, but I've noticed you get better
looking the more U.S. Opens you win and money you make." On his
appearence as one of People magazines Most Beautiful People in
the World
-"Mates are important. Very Australian. True-blue." on what is
important in life
-"All I know is it's a big learning experience, life is, and
you've got to try to be a good person, and be a better person
tomorrow." On his success in tennis
-"Here's another bloody prick of a hole." on the dogleg of the
hole in golf that he's staring at
-"I'll probably marry an Australian girl. We have more to talk
about. We understand each other."
-"It was very hard to make a living. You need, like, 10 000
acres to make money at it. We had 300. It was just another
thing he did to make ends meet. It was never easy." On his
Father who did all he could for his family while Pat was growing
up.
-"I didn't know if I was ever going to make it." On his early
days in tennis
-"I've done them all. Everything except for cults." on his
religious followings
-"Would I do it again? No. Would I encourage other people to do
it? Yeah. You sort of take away from it a view of how people
live. Realism, I think. I hate to sound philisophical, but
that's what it is. People go on this tour and think this is
what they're supposed to have. They think this is how life
should treat them. Then they get get a big kick in the a** all
of a sudden." on his days on the sattelite (very low end of the
ATP) tour and the difficulties he faced playing tennis on this
tour
-"Then I said 'Stuff That' and went back to what I did best" on
his short go at being a baseline player
-"I think I do the right thing most of the time. But I've egged people's cars and thrown rocks at their roofs."
-"Listen, you've got to be realistic. I'm not going to be a ten--
or twelve-- grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen. I'm
not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I
might be a three- or four-grand-slam winner; I might be a two-
grand-slam winner-- I don't know. But whatever I've got out of
this game, I can always look back on it and say I've
accomplished more than my expectations. Life's there to make
the most of, and that's what I do."
-"Lately I've given up saying nice things about Pete. A few of his comments have come across as arrogant to me. We won't be having a beer together." on Pete Sampras's unneccessy rude comments towards him
-"To stay the same old sack of crap I've always been." What Pat's
next ambition was after winning his first U.S. Open
-"About 20 minutes before tha match I got fed up and said 'Who the hell am I playing?'" On the U.S. attempt to replace Todd Martin with Pate Sampras at the Davis Cup
-"Being No. 1 is great, but the fact that I'm able to annoy Pete is even better." On passing Pete Sampras for the no. 1 seed on the ATP tour (Later said he was taken out of context...but it's still funny!)
Others on Patrick
-"He knows the crowd loves him, and he responds in a nice way.
Women are just crazy about Patrick. I mean, my wife is ready to
leave me for him." Bud Collins, NBC commentator
-"He hung in there and gutted it out" Pete Sampras after losing
to Pat
-"Patrick has always been a gentleman. From the time he was a
this little bloke who opened the car door and put me in." Pat's
Mom, Jocelyn
-"The other reason we call him Skunky is that he's legendary for
his farts." Paul Kilderry, Pat's best mate, on Pat's nickname
(the real reason is that part of his hair is white)
-"They understand how rude we are." Peter Rafter on why Pat says
he'll marry and Aussie girl
-"It was pretty obvious he was a good athlete. There were a lot
of raw weaknesses. But he was keen. He had charisma" John
Newcombe, an Australian tennis player, on Pat's early tennis career
-"Over the next two years, he should be in and out of the number one position" John Newcombe
-"He's genuinely concerned that he come out on the other side of this adventure as the same person who went in." John Newcombe