Top 100 Roger Federer Quotes
#1. 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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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.
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#6. I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.
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#9. I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.
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#10. I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.
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#11. Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn't even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.
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#12. Having twin girls is a life changer - that's for sure. But I like getting up and changing diapers. It's the things you do.
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#13. 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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#14. I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.
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#15. Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
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#16. I definitely feel there's room for improvement.
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#17. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.
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#18. I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.
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#19. 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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#20. I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.
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#24. I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out ... I don't think we can call it a rivalry yet. There's just to many great players around.
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#25. I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.
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#26. You know, I don't only play for the record books.
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#27. My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.
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#28. Clearly, when you win everything, it's fun. That doesn't necessarily mean you love the game more.
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#29. I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year.
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#31. I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the Olympic Stadium for an Olympic Games ... So for me that was a surprise and a huge honor in my life to be able to represent Switzerland.
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#32. 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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#34. 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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#35. I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.
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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. My wife doesn't like Football but she watches it just for Messi.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. When you're good at something, make that everything
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#44. 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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#45. I have a great record against anybody right now, so it doesn't really matter who I play in the final. I'll be in there as the big favorite. But I play my best in the finals, in the important matches. That's why I'm number one. There's no secret ... I'm not overconfident, but very confident.
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#46. My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.
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#50. You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.
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#51. With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.
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#52. My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.
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#53. I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.
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#54. I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.
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#60. I have a very strong opinion. I'm absolutely against it. I'm against the challenge system. I'm for the way it is right now. Don't change that.
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#61. 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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#62. I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner. From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts.
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#63. Every match I go into, I'm the huge favorite. I lose a set and it's, like, crazy.
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#64. Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
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#67. I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#71. It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.
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#72. 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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#73. I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.
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#74. When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.
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#75. Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
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#78. I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.
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#79. 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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#80. For me, it's important that a fan can buy something that is related to me. Like in soccer, you buy a shirt and it's got somebody's name on the back. That's kind of a cool thing.
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#81. When they [court announcers] say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.
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#82. I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
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#83. My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.
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#85. 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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#86. Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.
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#87. Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.
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#88. I went to Phuket already, but would love to go to Chiang Mai one day.
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#89. 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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#90. One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.
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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side
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#95. 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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#96. I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.
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#97. 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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#98. Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically ...
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#99. I'm shocked every time that I've reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is. It strikes me and makes me obviously very happy and very proud that I've been able to do it for so many years at the highest of levels.
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#100. 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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