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.
ROGER FEDERERI 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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Mentally, I’m not ever going to go away.
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There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.
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The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side.
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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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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’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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Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I’m the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.
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I fear no one, but respect everyone.
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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 have learnt to be even more patient.
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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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In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.
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I definitely feel there’s room for improvement.
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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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You’ve never seen me dance, have you?
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Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
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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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A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.
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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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I’m playing great tennis. I’m enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I’m loving it now.
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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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One of my big, big strengths I think early on in my career was that I could learn very quickly. You wouldn’t have to tell me the things 10 times or 50 times until I would understand them. You would only have to tell me two or three times.
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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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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 feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don’t dislike it.
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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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