Jennifer Capriati Quotations

She started playing better in the second set, playing like she had nothing to lose, ... I had to stay in there and stick it out.

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.

There's no timetable right now. I can't say one way or the other, but I'm not retired by all means.

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.

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

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

I learned that it will be fun if it's all like this.

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.

I didn't even, like, look at it. It was close. I was just going to do what the umpire said,

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.

I was an emotional basket case.

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 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.

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.

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

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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