I don’t know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.
ROGER FEDERERYou know, I don’t only play for the record books.
More Roger Federer Quotes
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In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.
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I’m playing great tennis. I’m enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I’m loving it now.
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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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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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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.
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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’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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Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I’m maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often.
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It’s just unreal, I’m shocked myself. I’ve played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
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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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One should just be able to play a perfect game.
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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 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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I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
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I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.
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