When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.
ROGER FEDERERYou 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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I definitely feel there’s room for improvement.
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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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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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The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.
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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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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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It doesn’t need to be the same every day, doesn’t need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I’ve always been very flexible. I don’t care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.
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The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side.
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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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I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn’t stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
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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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Clearly, when you win everything, it’s fun. That doesn’t necessarily mean you love the game more.
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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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I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.
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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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