I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
ROGER FEDERERNo, 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.
More Roger Federer Quotes
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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 feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don’t dislike it.
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One should just be able to play a perfect game.
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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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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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Every match I go into, I’m the huge favorite. I lose a set and it’s, like, crazy.
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Mentally, I’m not ever going to go away.
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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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My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand. It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so it’s the one I’ve won all the points with.
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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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My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
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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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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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Being down match point, it’s just not fun.
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You’ve never seen me dance, have you?
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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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The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.
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When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.
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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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Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
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I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.
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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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Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically.
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You know, I don’t only play for the record books.
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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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I’m proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.
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