Roger Federer Quotes
20 quotes from Roger Federer — Swiss tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time..
“There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.”
“I fear no one, but respect everyone.”
“A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.”
“When you're good at something, make that everything.”
“You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.”
“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.”
“Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.”
“I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.”
“When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.”
“I don't play for the record books.”
“Being a husband is as big a priority for me as being a father.”
“You have to put in the hours because there's always something which you can improve.”
“I didn't get where I got on pure talent alone. I got there by trying to outwork my opponents. I believed in myself. But belief in yourself has to be earned.”
“The best in the world are not the best because they win every point. It's because they know they'll lose again and again and have learned how to deal with it. You accept it, cry it out if you need to, and then force a smile.”
“The feeling before a Grand Slam final against Roger, it's different — a different atmosphere, a different kind of pressure. To know that I will not have this feeling for the rest of my life, it's something that… it's painful.”
“In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80 percent of those matches. Now, I have a question for all of you: what percentage of the points do you think I won in those matches? … Fifty-four percent. In other words, even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play.”
“You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game — even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.”
“I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart, to everyone around the world who has helped make the dreams of a young Swiss ball kid come true. Finally, to the game of tennis, I love you, and will never leave you.”
“I got over the final very, very easily, very quickly, to be honest, because it's just part of it.”
“It's just a love story, you know? It's a love story between him and tennis, him and his fans, between Roger and his wife — and his rivals. This kind of really unusual relationship between him and his greatest rivals, who are all there for this moment and who're all sharing in something and knowing it's all going to end at some point.”
