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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.

Roger Federer

I’ve always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that’s the way things are.
ROGER FEDERER

Career Image Myself Patience Ruin Yourself
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
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
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
The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me.
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Believe Defeat Enough Inspirational Lose Myself
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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Myself Pain Play Problem Thinking
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
Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
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Acceptance Better Man Sports Yourself
The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side.
ROGER FEDERER

Fate Luck Oneself Yourself
It’s just unreal, I’m shocked myself. I’ve played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
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Destroy Goodness Myself Play Reality
You’ve never seen me dance, have you?
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Dance Funny Myself See Yourself
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
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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Competition Greatness Love Myself Sports
Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year.
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Career Consistency Myself Struggle
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
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
Success is a nice thing because it always means you’ve taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.
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Circle Confidence Experience Positive Pride Success Talk Yourself
My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
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Family Missing Myself
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 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
I definitely feel there’s room for improvement.
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Change Feeling Improvement Myself Room
I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
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Myself Sports Tournament
There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.
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Acceptance Hard Work Way
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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Couple Movie Myself Remember Sad
The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that’s the beauty of it.
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Beautiful Important Play Sports
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
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.
ROGER FEDERER

Better Excitement Feeling Myself Nice Play Respect Rival Stupidity Thinking Wrong

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