Motivation Quote by Richard Krajicek

Krajicek punctures the romantic myth of the retired champion who “gives back” through coaching, as if mentorship is a casual hobby you pick up between golf rounds. His line is blunt on purpose: coaching isn’t a ceremonial title, it’s calendar tyranny. “Full-time” here isn’t a flex about work ethic; it’s an admission that the job demands the same sort of life-consumption elite tennis already required from him.

The specificity does the heavy lifting. “At least 40 weeks” and the paired verbs “travelling or training” turn coaching into logistics, repetition, and proximity. Not strategy on a whiteboard, not inspirational speeches. The subtext is that the coach-player relationship is a kind of long-term cohabitation: airports, practice courts, hotels, moods. If you want to shape a player, you surrender your own routine. Krajicek is naming the hidden cost: you don’t just teach tennis, you absorb someone else’s career.

There’s also a quiet boundary being drawn against the expectation that former stars owe the sport their post-career labor. “Right now I don’t want to do that” reads less like apathy than self-preservation. It’s a reminder that freedom is one of the main prizes of retirement, and that choosing not to coach can be a form of honesty rather than a lack of generosity. In a culture that worships grind, he’s defending the legitimacy of opting out.