Roger Federer Quotes
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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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Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically.
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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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I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.
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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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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 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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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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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 feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.
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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.
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Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.
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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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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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Clearly, when you win everything, it's fun. That doesn't necessarily mean you love the game more.
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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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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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I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.
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Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
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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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I can walk around screaming, 'I have 17 Grand Slams. I have the record here or there.' When you can play for history and you do it, that's what is so really cool, is that you can then be compared to other greats or you've passed another great, even though it doesn't mean you're better than him. But it's just like that moment you've gone into the unknown where nobody else has ever been before.
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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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Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.
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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.