The 5 following quotes are from Wimbledon 1998

 Goran Ivanisevic about his year and  lack of confidence:
  "There was nothing to try. I started  good this year. I won Split with a lot  of pressure in my home town and  then after that, it just was downhill,  every week down, down, down and I
 just tried to hang in there. It was not  easy. Every time I was hoping I was  going to get better and then at the French I was okay and suddenly lost first round again. But I did a good
  thing: I kept my mind, I said okay, you cannot go so long without a win.  You just cannot feel sorry for  yourself, because when I start to feel  sorry for myself it is bad. I was just  pushing and pushing and now it is  paying off."

Ivanisevic on Croatia's chances to win the World Cup:
  "If they would win? I don't know. It  would be great. I think the whole country would be drunk for the rest of  the year, including me and the rest of  the team. We would celebrate. I
would put the racquets in the closet  and just come back next year..."

 On his tatoo:
"My tatoo is a cross, a rose and a   shark. A cross is a cross, a rose like  love and a shark is a pretty tough animal. It hurts a lot. I did not know it  was going to hurt so much when I got
 it, but now it is okay. I did it in Key Biscayane this year. I wanted it on  the shoulder, but then the guy said,"It is going to be a little stiff", so  I was scared, if I could play. So I said,"Okay, put it on the back."

On Superstition:
"I never change anything during the  tournament. Maybe afterwards I will shave again. I also have two songs that I listen to every day before I leave the house and we have six  showers in the locker room. So each day I pick the same one. If it is occupied, I wait."

Question:"You are looking more and  more like Jesus..."
Ivanisevic: "Maybe that is why I play good, you know."
Question:"There was a close call and  you said 'God'. Do you always talk to  God?"
 Ivanisevic:"It is nice to talk to him. He  is always watching so why not talk?"
  

- Ivanisevic converted only 2 of 14 chances for break...

"There is no chance that he breaks my serve in normal conditions. He played well, nothing
special. Every time when i had an oportunnity to break him, i did - NOTHING. I just waited. I
am waitning whole my life, and it seems i just cannot get what i am waiting for. I get some
crazy ideas of how should i play some point during the match, but none of this actions is not
calculated. Insetead of pushing the ball, i just might as well launched a few on the road, it
would be the same...
This is really awfull! Who knows when will martelli win some serious match after this one?
Maybe on some satellite or challenger..."

"In my last five Grans Slam tournaments, only once i past the first round, last years wimbledon
- i beat peascariu. OK, last year in Paris i lost to Gustafsson who is good on clay. Then i lost to
Norman in wimbledon, who never again will win a match on grass. Az US OPEN- even
worse, i lost to pescariu. In australia to siemerink, which is not so bad, but this lose to martelli is just one of my "pearls" in a row. When i think of 1996, then everything went in, and now i play the same but the results are geting worse.. I even don't know what is my tennis anymore. On grass and indoors i play serve and volley. On hard courts i play on the baseline and cofide
myself in my winner grandstrokes, and on clay i just seems to get into 'kicking mode'. I don't
know what i should change and should i change anything..."
 

? How about a grass?

A: "Oh heck, i am fed up with grass, i am fed up of everything. I gotta get together with
myself, calm down a bit. I still play in paris, in doubles with Mark, who is my good friend. We
are amitious about this torunament. maybe after that things will look a bit better. At least i hope
so. 'Cos the worse cannot get..."

" My main goal is to try to win a Grand Slam and get back to the top 10, where I think I
deserve to be," he said. When I asked which goal would be more difficult to attain, he replied
candidly, " The first one".

" With me everything is dangerous. A walk is dangerous. In Austraila I was in the boxing ring

having fun and a guy hit me with the elbow and i got four stitches. With me it´s dangerous
even when I sleep. I can fall out off the bed. I have some parts of the years when I´m dangerous to myself. It´s boring for me to stay without injury."

My father always telling me, ´don´t play basketball, don´t play football, don´t play tennis, and don´t play this,´and then last year I am going out of my apartment and I close the door over my finger and break it three places. I was home for six weeks.

Tennis: What players did you like most when you were a kid?
Goran: John McEnroe. Partly because he was a left-hander partly because he played with the most imagination. And I liked his temper, it's similar to mine. Later I met him, and he's a calm guy, different from what you see on the court.