My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
ROGER FEDERERConfidence? 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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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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Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically.
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I’m not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.
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I have learnt to be even more patient.
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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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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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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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I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
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Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
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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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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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There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.
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Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
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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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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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