Roger Federer Quotes

I try not to make a habit of spending the whole year losing in the first rounds of events, but tennis is one of those sports where nothing is guaranteed.

I read a statistic that in horse racing, the favourite only wins 12 per cent of their races. I'm not comparing myself to a horse or saying I'm the favourite - although my sister would say I can nag an awful lot - but nothing is guaranteed in sport. Anyone can step up and take what you perceive to be your place in the final.

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

Anything is possible in football.

You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

We don't always get our respect but you've got to deal with it and go out there every week and just win football games.

We try each and every week to win. We know what's at stake, but every coach has that mindset, so it's not easy.

This is football, no more explanation, sometimes the best team does not win.

It's never nice to sit on the bench. Everybody knows it is not what you want as a professional footballer but it's about responding and coming back.

It doesn't matter who you play - you can win against anyone; you can lose against anyone.

I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.

I know how quickly things can change in football, and I am only where I am because someone else lost their place.

David Haye was a better fighter than me, but it's not about the better fighter because the better fighter does not always win.