Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year.
ROGER FEDERERIt 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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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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I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
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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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The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side.
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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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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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One or two years ago, I didn’t know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I’ve learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.
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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 definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.
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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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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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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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I have learnt to be even more patient.
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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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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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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 would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.
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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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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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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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In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.
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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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Every match I go into, I’m the huge favorite. I lose a set and it’s, like, crazy.
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You know, I don’t only play for the record books.
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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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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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