I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.
ROGER FEDEREREarly in my career, I had no consistency. Now I’m the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.
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I definitely feel there’s room for improvement.
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The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me.
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What I think I’ve been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
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I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you’ve already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don’t know.
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My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
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One or two years ago, I didn’t know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I’ve learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.
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The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side.
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When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.
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It’s just unreal, I’m shocked myself. I’ve played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
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I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, ‘Why didn’t I go to bed at 11?’ I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.
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I don’t know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.
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I’m playing great tennis. I’m enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I’m loving it now.
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I’m proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.
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One of my big, big strengths I think early on in my career was that I could learn very quickly. You wouldn’t have to tell me the things 10 times or 50 times until I would understand them. You would only have to tell me two or three times.
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Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.
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Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I’m maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often.
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I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.
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The nicer the point, the more — the better I feel, the more excited I get. But I never play that my opponent looks stupid. I think that is wrong. I have too much respect for every opponent I play.
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Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.
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Being down match point, it’s just not fun.
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Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year.
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I think it’s very hard for coaches to work with me. They’ll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they’re under a lot of pressure.
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But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year’s season.
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Clearly, when you win everything, it’s fun. That doesn’t necessarily mean you love the game more.
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It is always in my mind still that I can crush anybody. That’s not an issue. But I think that is the same for most athletes. If you don’t believe you can win tournaments anymore, then you can’t do it.
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I don’t mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That’s all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.
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