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 FEDERERWhen I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
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Mentally, I’m not ever going to go away.
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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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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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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.
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When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
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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’m proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.
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With all the injury problems we have in men’s tennis at the moment, I’m happy to still be standing.
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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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The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side.
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Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
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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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I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don’t dislike it.
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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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But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year’s season.
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