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ROGER FEDERERI’m playing great tennis. I’m enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I’m loving it now.
More Roger Federer Quotes
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I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, ‘Why didn’t I go to bed at 11?’ I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.
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I don’t know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.
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I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts.
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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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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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Seriously. I’m not playing to prove anything to journalists. I’m playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.
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Being down match point, it’s just not fun.
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I love tennis! I’ve always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to 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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I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.
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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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I always knew I had something special.
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I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
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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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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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It’s just unreal, I’m shocked myself. I’ve played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
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Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.
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I have learnt to be even more patient.
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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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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’m not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.
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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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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 not so simple to just stay in the moment and trust your game and your strength that you can turn it around.
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I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.
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