Jennifer Capriati Quotes

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• It doesn’t matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

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

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• I was an emotional basket case.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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Jennifer Capriati (22)

Birth:	29th March, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Tennis Player

About

Jennifer Maria Capriati was born in New York City, New York, USA. She is an American former professional tennis player. A member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, she won three singles championships in Grand Slam tournaments and a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, reached the World No. 1 ranking, and is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. In 1998, she won her first Grand Slam singles match in five years at Wimbledon. She won 14 professional singles tournaments during her career, along with one women's doubles championship.

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