I do like the conditions here. I mean, obviously hard courts is the surface I feel very comfortable on, normally, if you put in good work in the off-season and work hard, you're going to get good rewards at the beginning of the year. I feel like the effort and work that I put in December has helped me here.

Roger Federer

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

Roger Federer

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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.

Roger Federer

player winning thinking

When they [court announcers] say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.

Roger Federer

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Being down match point, it's just not fun.

Roger Federer

match-point fun

In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.

Roger Federer

impatient lockers rooms

I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.

Roger Federer

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Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

Roger Federer

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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.

Roger Federer

powerful running thinking

Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.

Roger Federer

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I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.

Roger Federer

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I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

Roger Federer

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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.

Roger Federer

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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.

Roger Federer

strong challenges way

My wife doesn't like Football but she watches it just for Messi.

Roger Federer

messi wife football

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

pain years thinking

One of my big, big strengths I think early on in my career was that I could learn very quickly. You wouldn't have to tell me the things 10 times or 50 times until I would understand them. You would only have to tell me two or three times.

Roger Federer

careers two thinking

Every match I go into, I'm the huge favorite. I lose a set and it's, like, crazy.

Roger Federer

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I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

Roger Federer

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Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

Roger Federer

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One should just be able to play a perfect game.

Roger Federer

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