Roger Federer Quotes

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.
- Roger Federer

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
- Roger Federer

I told myself to play free. You play the ball. You don’t play the opponent. Be free in your head. Be free in your shots. Go for it. The brave will be rewarded here.
- Roger Federer

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.”
- Roger Federer

I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.”
- Roger Federer

When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up, and for me it’s tennis.
- Roger Federer

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.
- Roger Federer

The serve, I was too young and too small and not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that’s why I think it’s my strength also today.
- Roger Federer

I don’t play for the record books.
- Roger Federer

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.
- Roger Federer

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.
- Roger Federer

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.
- Roger Federer

We can’t always agree on everything.
- Roger Federer

The serve, I think, is the most difficult, in terms of coordination because you got to toss it up at the right time. Roger Federer
- Roger Federer

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.
- Roger Federer

When you win everything, it’s fun.
- Roger Federer

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.
- Roger Federer

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred.
- Roger Federer

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.
- Roger Federer

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.
- Roger Federer

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it’s not a problem anymore actually because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- Roger Federer

I always had the dream.
- Roger Federer

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete Sampras’s record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.
- Roger Federer

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year.
- Roger Federer

My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand. It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so its the one I’ve won all the points with.
- Roger Federer

There’s no way around hard work. Embrace it.
- Roger Federer

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.
- Roger Federer