Patrick Rafter Quotes

Winning a Grand Slam was something I was chasing the first day I became a coach.

I was getting, at like 18, 'Why haven't you won a Grand Slam yet?'

I'm pretty realistic. I cannot wish to be Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova because they won, like, a hundred Grand Slams.

I really believe that I can be the No 1, but for that to happen, I probably need to win a couple of grand slams, and they are not going to fall from the sky.

Winning two Wimbledons is very nice, no matter what.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest.

Winning a Grand Slam is not something I'll think about.

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

I think I can win a slam. That's my main goal, and if I could choose one, then yes, it would have to be Wimbledon. But, honestly, I would take any one of them.

Playing in a main draw Grand Slam is something you dream about as a kid.

I definitely think about lifting the big trophies, and I dream about winning slams or making it.

Of course, I want to win a Grand Slam.

I got to one Grand Slam final, and that's what you shoot for as a player.

Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.

I'd love to win Wimbledon.

I think when you're younger and you're watching people play on TV, you always say that you want to be at the French Open - you want to be playing Grand Slams. But then actually being there doing it, it kind of blows you away thinking, Wow, I actually used to think maybe I could do that one day, and now I'm actually doing it.

Nobody expected me to win Wimbledon. It was something to strive for.

Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it.