Goran Ivanisevic Quotes

When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won’t play another match. Maybe God’s telling me to go home, but I don’t want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.

After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys’ career prize money on the tour.

If I can’t serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can’t say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop.

I just try to play tennis and don’t find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That’s the art of throwing racquets.

It’s great, but there is one problem. She doesn’t sleep. At night she seems to turn into a vampire. She wakes up every night five or 10 times, asking for things, singing, calling out.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.