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Roger Federer

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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Man Moments Problem Sports
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
In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.
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Myself Patience Time
Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
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Father Husband Priority
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
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
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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Blame Enjoyment Goal Lost Myself Player Sports Win
I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
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Change Fame Myself
Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
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Acceptance Better Man Sports Yourself
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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Body Experience Old Wisdom Yourself
Being down match point, it’s just not fun.
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Fun Sports
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
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
My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
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Family Missing Myself
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
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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Happiness Myself Technique
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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Evidence Fans Happiness People Play Serious
A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.
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Inspirational Men One Liner Thinking Win
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
For me, I’m in the driver’s seat; I’m No. 1 in the world. I’ve won the last couple of meetings, and I’ve won the big tournaments lately. Whoever comes, I’ll try to beat him. But it’s almost up to me to decide who’s my rival, isn’t it?
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Big Couple Decision Myself Rival Win World
You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.
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Believe Goal Inspirational Motivational Planning Success Yourself
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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Change Morning Need Practice Sleep
You know, I don’t only play for the record books.
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Book Myself Play Yourself
Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically.
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Bad Myself Simplicity Start
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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Food Goodness Myself Place
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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Best Give Up Life Myself Sports Yourself
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.
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Myself Right Tournament Win

Mentally, I’m not ever going to go away.

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