I have learnt to be even more patient.
ROGER FEDERERMentally, I’m not ever going to go away.
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You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.
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You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it’s important to have a bit of both.
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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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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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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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I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
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I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.
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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 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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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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One should just be able to play a perfect game.
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My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand. It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so it’s the one I’ve won all the points with.
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It doesn’t need to be the same every day, doesn’t need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I’ve always been very flexible. I don’t care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.
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A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.
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In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.
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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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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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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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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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My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
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I definitely feel there’s room for improvement.
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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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Success is a nice thing because it always means you’ve taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.
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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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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 never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, ‘If you don’t win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.
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