I love tennis! I’ve always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
ROGER FEDERERIn the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.
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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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I don’t mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That’s all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.
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It’s just unreal, I’m shocked myself. I’ve played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
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You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
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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 always knew I had something special.
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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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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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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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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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I’m proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.
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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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I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
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Mentally, I’m not ever going to go away.
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My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
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