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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.

Roger Federer

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year.
ROGER FEDERER

Career Consistency Myself Struggle
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.
ROGER FEDERER

Character Different Identity Language Myself
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.
ROGER FEDERER

Blame Enjoyment Goal Lost Myself Player Sports Win
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.
ROGER FEDERER

Better Excitement Feeling Myself Nice Play Respect Rival Stupidity Thinking Wrong
I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.
ROGER FEDERER

Happiness Myself Technique
I’ve always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that’s the way things are.
ROGER FEDERER

Career Image Myself Patience Ruin Yourself
I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.
ROGER FEDERER

Feeling Live Myself Problem
Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
ROGER FEDERER

Father Husband Priority
When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.
ROGER FEDERER

Best Give Up Life Myself Sports Yourself
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.
ROGER FEDERER

Feeling Happiness Hurt Myself Perspective Sorry View Win
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

Change Give Up Important Success Yourself
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.
ROGER FEDERER

Athlete Believe Issues Mindset Myself Thinking Tournament Yourself
Every match I go into, I’m the huge favorite. I lose a set and it’s, like, crazy.
ROGER FEDERER

Crazy Fame Myself
I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you’ve already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don’t know.
ROGER FEDERER

Myself Right Tournament Win
I don’t know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.
ROGER FEDERER

Myself Time Violation Yourself
I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.
ROGER FEDERER

Athlete Family Marriage Mindset Myself Thinking

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 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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