I don’t know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.
ROGER FEDEREROnce you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that’s when you start playing your best.
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Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.
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Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically.
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I’ve done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There’s always another interview to do. It’s quite something, I have to say.
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I’ve always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that’s the way things are.
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Every match I go into, I’m the huge favorite. I lose a set and it’s, like, crazy.
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For me, I’m in the driver’s seat; I’m No. 1 in the world. I’ve won the last couple of meetings, and I’ve won the big tournaments lately. Whoever comes, I’ll try to beat him. But it’s almost up to me to decide who’s my rival, isn’t it?
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I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.
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You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
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Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can’t remember the name, but it wasn’t even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.
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The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side.
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The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that’s the beauty of it.
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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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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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When you’re good at something, make that everything
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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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