Quotable Quotes

-Would you complain if chicks wanted to go after you?  It's nice
having that image.  I remember when women wouldn't look twice at 
me."

-"Money is nice, but I came into tennis thinking that if I can 
buy a two-bedroom home, I'm ahead of 90 percent of the people in 
the world."

-"With eight brothers and sisters, you can't have much 
arrogance."

-"The most incredible moment multiplied by five.  It was a dream 
come true." on winning the U.S. Open in 1997

-"You try and get the most out of what you're given, and you have to enjoy the moment."

-"'Good looking' is the sort of term that I don't particularly 
like,I try to never give myself encouragement like that." 

-"I think if you're happy in your work, I think you're happy in
life. But if you put it in the big picture, I'm still very happy."

-"Being confined to a wheelchair. As someone who has pursued 
athletics his whole life, I think it would be a real tough 
transition for me." Pat's biggest fear

-"There are a lot of distractions at the US Open. Everything has 
to be going your way to win a Grand Slam. There's no doubt about 
it. But someone like Pete (Sampras) can do it because he's simply 
a better player than everybody else. But someone like me, I need 
things to be going my way like they were last year." 
 
-"I am heterosexual you know" about wearing tight shorts in this picture.

-"It’s no good raping people, you know, raping them for what they’ve got."

- "I had a go at him." about being yelled at by Todd Woodbridge's
girlfriend because Pat and Philipoussis were whupping him. 
(Woodbridge's girlfriend was heard yelling "You're a disgrace!") 
Pat came out looking like the good guy, of course..how could 
anyone hate him?)

-"Now I feel year last wasn't such a fluke. Now I can look at                       
people and think I have done it again." on his back-to-back win 
of the U.S. Open

-"I had a day off -- I sat down and ate rubbish and watched 
cricket on television," After his loss to Lleyton Hewitt in the
Adidas International

-"Nothing wrong with that, but I've noticed you get better 
looking the more U.S. Opens you win and money you make." On his 
appearence as one of People magazines Most Beautiful People in 
the World

-"Mates are important.  Very Australian. True-blue." on what is 
important in life

-"All I know is it's a big learning experience, life is, and 
you've got to try to be a good person, and be a better person 
tomorrow."  On his success in tennis

-"Here's another bloody prick of a hole." on the dogleg of the 
hole in golf that he's staring at

-"I'll probably marry an Australian girl.  We have more to talk 
about.  We understand each other."  

-"It was very hard to make a living.  You need, like, 10 000
acres to make money at it.  We had 300.  It was just another 
thing he did to make ends meet.  It was never easy." On his 
Father who did all he could for his family while Pat was growing 
up.

-"I didn't know if I was ever going to make it." On his early 
days in tennis

-"I've done them all.  Everything except for cults." on his 
religious followings

-"Would I do it again? No.  Would I encourage other people to do 
it? Yeah.  You sort of take away from it a view of how people 
live.  Realism, I think. I hate to sound philisophical, but 
that's what it is.  People go on this tour and think this is 
what they're supposed to have.  They think this is how life 
should treat them.  Then they get get a big kick in the a** all 
of a sudden." on his days on the sattelite (very low end of the 
ATP) tour and the difficulties he faced playing tennis on this 
tour

-"Then I said 'Stuff That' and went back to what I did best" on 
his short go at being a baseline player

-"I think I do the right thing most of the time.  But I've egged
people's cars and thrown rocks at their roofs."

-"Listen, you've got to be realistic. I'm not going to be a ten--
or twelve-- grand-slam winner.  It's not going to happen.  I'm 
not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that.  I 
might be a three- or four-grand-slam winner; I might be a two-
grand-slam winner-- I don't know.  But whatever I've got out of 
this game, I can always look back on it and say I've 
accomplished more than my expectations.  Life's there to make 
the most of, and that's what I do."

-"Lately I've given up saying nice things about Pete.  A few of
his comments have come across as arrogant to me.  We won't be 
having a beer together." on Pete Sampras's unneccessarily rude 
comments towards him

-"To stay the same old sack of crap I've always been." What Pat's 
next ambition was after winning his first U.S. Open

-"About 20 minutes before that match I got fed up and said 'Who
the hell am I playing?'" On the U.S. attempt to replace Todd 
Martin with Pete Sampras at the Davis Cup

-"Being No. 1 is great, but the fact that I'm able to annoy Pete 
is even better." On passing Pete Sampras for the no. 1 seed on 
the ATP tour (Later said he was taken out of context...but it's 
still funny!)

-"I really coudnt give two s**ts"....."sorry can I be fined for 
that?" When asked how he felt about Mark Philipoussis pulling 
out of the Davis Cup

-"Oh, I'm really sexy mate.  No, not at all.  It's a funny thing.  I consider myself an average looking guy who seems to be successful in tennis."  

-"We've all got our crosses to bear."  After being told: "It
must be nice traveling all over the world playing tennis, living in Bermuda,and having a house in Monte Carlo?" 



Others on Patrick

-"He knows the crowd loves him, and he responds in a nice way.  
Women are just crazy about Patrick.  I mean, my wife is ready to 
leave me for him."  Bud Collins, NBC commentator

-"He hung in there and gutted it out" Pete Sampras after losing 
to Pat

-"Patrick has always been a gentleman.  From the time he was a 
this little bloke who opened the car door and put me in." Pat's 
Mom, Jocelyn

-"The other reason we call him Skunky is that he's legendary for 
his farts." Paul Kilderry, Pat's best mate, on Pat's nickname 
(the real reason is that part of his hair is white)

-"They understand how rude we are." Peter Rafter on why Pat says 
he'll marry an Aussie girl *Note: After this statement, Pat let 
out a loud belch, as if in agreement.*

-"It was pretty obvious he was a good athlete.  There were a lot
of raw weaknesses.  But he was keen.  He had charisma" John 
Newcombe, an Australian tennis player, on Pat's early tennis career

-"Over the next two years, he should be in and out of the number one position" John Newcombe

-"He's genuinely concerned that he come out on the other side of
this adventure as the same person who went in." John Newcombe

If you have any quotes, I'd appreciate hearing them
to put on this page.  Thanks!



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