Roger Federer Quotes
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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I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
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Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
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Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.
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To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
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It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.
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While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.
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When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.
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Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.
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I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.
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I really just try to enjoy the game and hope that I can inspire young kids. I started playing tennis because of Monica Seles, and I try to promote the sport in the best possible way. Sometimes it's hard because you get upset on court, but I think in life one learns through experiences in order to evolve as a person.
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If you are happy in your private life, and - that will affect your tennis, and that will help you, actually.
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Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
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The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.
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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.
