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.
ROGER FEDERERI’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.
More Roger Federer Quotes
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One should just be able to play a perfect game.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.
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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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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’m not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.
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When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
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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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Being down match point, it’s just not fun.
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When you’re good at something, make that everything
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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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