Roger Federer Quotes

I'm a huge tennis fan, so the game I play the most is 'Top Spin.' You really have to know how to play tennis to get good at this game - whether you want to hit a forehand or a backhand, when's the best time to hit a slice - it's so real.

You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.

I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

I was serving good but was returning especially well, which was a weakness in my game. So not only was I serving well, but I was also breaking these other guys, and they felt the pressure.

I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

I'm a massive Roger Federer fan, and sometimes I can see in his game the willful development of a tactic or technique that doesn't come as naturally to him, like fixating on improving the backhand. And I'm thinking, Hit the forehand! It's what you do!

Mikhail Youzhny likes the grass and has plenty of weapons to hurt you with.

My serve is my biggest weapon.

There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.

Most guys aren't getting a racquet or putting balls back in off my serve most of the time.

I try to weigh out the dark and the light. They were both very real aspects of my Dad. To me, the good and the healing and the light outweigh the dark so much, and that's why I focus on the good.

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.

I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.

Tennis is a funny sport.

The game of tennis is incredible. The show of tennis, I think, is very old fashioned.

I was at the Wimbledon some time back and I saw Roger Federer play.

The one-handed backhand helps you to be more aggressive in the points.

Even when it doesn't look good, it's always good. Even the worst thing, there's always something good that comes out of it. I've learned that.

Slowly from just touching the ball I got to making the ball and eventually hitting a decent defensive shot. Because I don't have a lot of weapons I have to use my speed.

I'll just let my tennis talk.

I think I'm a very powerful player; I can hit good groundstrokes.