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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.

Roger Federer

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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Advice Father Live Money Myself Pay Travel
When you’re good at something, make that everything
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Goodness Inspirational One Liner Yourself
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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Goodness Motivational Reach Time Yourself
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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Disappoint Expectation Loss Myself Reason Run Win
I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
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Change Fame Myself
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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Doubt Myself Pressure Thinking Time
Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.
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Fine Hope Myself Oneself
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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Myself Time Violation Yourself
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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Confidence Growth Play Player Remember Start
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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Best Harmony Peace Place Play Quiet Start Yourself
I always knew I had something special.
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Ability Myself Self Love Talent
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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Bed Early Food Myself Wake Up
My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
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Game Move Myself Play
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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Myself Sports Win Young
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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Athlete Believe Issues Mindset Myself Thinking Tournament Yourself
I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
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Myself Sports Tournament
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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Feeling Happiness Hurt Myself Perspective Sorry View Win
It’s just unreal, I’m shocked myself. I’ve played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
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Destroy Goodness Myself Play Reality
Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can’t remember the name, but it wasn’t even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.
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Couple Movie Myself Remember Sad
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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Children Comfortable Friendship Fun Myself People Photograph Player
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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Game Moments Simplicity Stay Strength Trust Yourself
Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically.
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Bad Myself Simplicity Start
Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
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Acceptance Better Man Sports Yourself
I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
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Difficult Help Moments Myself Positive Thinking
Oh, my God, I don’t think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.
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Expectation Game Play Player Thinking Win
My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
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Family Missing Myself
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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Different Language Myself Quite Talk

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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