"There is no way around the hard work.
Embrace it."
- Roger Federer
"I was aware of how incredible the match was. Unfortunately there had to be a winner.
From my point of view many left feeling sorry for me instead of being happy for Rafa. Which hurts."
- Roger Federer
"My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand.
It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so it's the one I've won all the points with."
- 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
"I'm a very positive thinker,
and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments."
- 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
"When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things.
I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too."
- 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."
- 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, you know."
- Roger Federer
"You know,
I don't only play for the record books."
- Roger Federer
