One should just be able to play a perfect game.
ROGER FEDERERIt’s not so simple to just stay in the moment and trust your game and your strength that you can turn it around.
More Roger Federer Quotes
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I’m at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don’t freak out…I don’t think we can call it a rivalry yet. There’s just to many great players around.
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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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Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.
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I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.
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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 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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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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I’m proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.
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I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.
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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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A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.
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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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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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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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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 have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
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Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
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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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I have learnt to be even more patient.
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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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I never waited 27 years, because 27 years ago I was just born. My parents never told me, ‘If you don’t win Roland Garros we take you to the orphanage.
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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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I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
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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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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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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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