Yevgeny Kafelnikov quotes

  • I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.
    -- Yevgeny Kafelnikov

    #Winning #Years #Tennis

  • My country is taking over in tennis
    -- Yevgeny Kafelnikov

    #Country #Tennis

  • It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

  • A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

  • Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

  • [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

  • There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.

  • I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

  • You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

  • The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

  • Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis

  • Tennis is the loneliest sport

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