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 FEDERERI can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
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My wife doesn’t like Football but she watches it just for Messi.
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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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Confidence? Are you kidding me? I mean, please. Look, some players grow up and play like that. I remember losing junior matches. Just being down 5-2 in the third, and they all just start slapping shots.
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Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
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I definitely feel there’s room for improvement.
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A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.
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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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I always knew I had something special.
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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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There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.
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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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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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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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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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