Quotes from Roger Federer

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.

I went to Phuket already, but would love to go to Chiang Mai one day.

Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.

I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

For me, it's important that a fan can buy something that is related to me. Like in soccer, you buy a shirt and it's got somebody's name on the back. That's kind of a cool thing.

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

The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

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, you know.

The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

We can't always agree on everything.

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

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

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.