When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.
ROGER FEDERERMy 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.
More Roger Federer Quotes
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I fear no one, but respect everyone.
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I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.
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My wife doesn’t like Football but she watches it just for Messi.
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My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
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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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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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Every match I go into, I’m the huge favorite. I lose a set and it’s, like, crazy.
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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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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 am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.
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When you’re good at something, make that everything
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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.
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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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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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I have learnt to be even more patient.
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