My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
ROGER FEDEREREarly in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year.
More Roger Federer Quotes
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I love tennis! I’ve always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
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One should just be able to play a perfect game.
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Being down match point, it’s just not fun.
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Seriously. I’m not playing to prove anything to journalists. I’m playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.
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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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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 feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don’t dislike it.
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I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
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I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts.
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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.
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You’ve never seen me dance, have you?
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I’m not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.
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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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Oh, my God, I don’t think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.
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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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