Roger Federer Quotes
I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
Quotes to Explore
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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.
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There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.
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If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.
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Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.
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If I ever have downtime, I'm usually sitting in my place playing video games. Or eating sandwiches somewhere, or watching sports some place.
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Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.
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It was in the back of my mind, even while I was going to school, but it wasn't until I was at university studying engineering that I thought, well what do I really want to do? And I kind of came back to that and I said, well the degrees I'm trying to get are going to qualify me to apply. And so, that's what I did after I finished my, or after I was getting my doctorates. That's when I first applied to NASA.
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Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.
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They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
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I'd like to thank the BBC for allowing me to work here. And I'd like to thank the wife and kids for making it necessary.
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To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
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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.
