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Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

Roger Federer

Being down match point, it’s just not fun.
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Fun Sports
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
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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Goodness Motivational Reach Time Yourself
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
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
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
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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Career Feeling Goodness Myself Play Pretty
A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.
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Inspirational Men One Liner Thinking Win
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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Expectation Game Play Player Thinking Win
I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
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Difficult Help Moments Myself Positive Thinking
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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Game Greatness Lose Myself Player Thinking Win
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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Character Different Identity Language Myself
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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Athlete Believe Issues Mindset Myself Thinking Tournament Yourself
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
Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
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Father Husband Priority
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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Best Love Play Sports Try Win Yourself
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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Children Comfortable Friendship Fun Myself People Photograph Player
I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, ‘Why didn’t I go to bed at 11?’ I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.
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Bed Early Food Myself Wake Up
The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side.
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Fate Luck Oneself Yourself
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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Born Myself Orphan Parents Wait Yourself
I can’t stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We’ll see what happens.
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Change Fame Myself
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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Change Give Up Important Success Yourself
My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
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Family Missing Myself
I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.
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Idol Myself
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
Every match I go into, I’m the huge favorite. I lose a set and it’s, like, crazy.
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Crazy Fame Myself
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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Big Career Oneself Quick Strength Thinking Time Understand

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