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.
ROGER FEDERERNo, I’m not (disappointed). There’s no reason to be because I’m on an incredible run. You always expect a loss once in a while. So when it happens, why be disappointed if I win over 90% of my matches.
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Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I’m the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.
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No, I’m not (disappointed). There’s no reason to be because I’m on an incredible run. You always expect a loss once in a while. So when it happens, why be disappointed if I win over 90% of my matches.
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You know, I don’t only play for the record books.
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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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Every match I go into, I’m the huge favorite. I lose a set and it’s, like, crazy.
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I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.
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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 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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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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Once 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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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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I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
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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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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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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 more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me.
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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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Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically.
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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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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 am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
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My wife doesn’t like Football but she watches it just for Messi.
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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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I’m at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don’t freak out…I don’t think we can call it a rivalry yet. There’s just to many great players around.
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When you’re good at something, make that everything
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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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