Top 90 Roger Federer Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.”

— Roger Federer

52. “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

53. “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

54. “I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.”

— Roger Federer

55. “The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.”

— Roger Federer

56. “But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year’s season.”

— Roger Federer

57. “I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don’t dislike it.”

— Roger Federer

58. “You’ve never seen me dance, have you?”

— Roger Federer

59. “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.”

— Roger Federer

60. “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.”

— Roger Federer

61. “When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.”

— Roger Federer

62. “I’m as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.”

— Roger Federer

63. “Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they’re completely dependent on you and there’s a third generation. It’s a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.”

— Roger Federer

64. “I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.”

— Roger Federer

65. “Having twin girls is a life changer – that’s for sure. But I like getting up and changing diapers. It’s the things you do.”

— Roger Federer

66. “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

67. “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.”

— Roger Federer

68. “The nicer the point, the more – the better I feel, the more excited I get. But I never play that my opponent looks stupid. I think that is wrong. I have too much respect for every opponent I play.”

— Roger Federer

69. “I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.”

— Roger Federer

70. “I’ve done so many interviews over the years in so many different languages. Radios. Papers. Magazines. There’s always another interview to do. It’s quite something, I have to say.”

— Roger Federer

71. “It’s not so simple to just stay in the moment and trust your game and your strength that you can turn it around.”

— Roger Federer

72. “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

73. “Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.”

— Roger Federer

74. “I’m playing great tennis. I’m enjoying the tour, having fun with the fans off the court. I’m loving it now.”

— Roger Federer

75. “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

76. “Oh, my God, I don’t think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand Slam wins or title wins or being so long at the top of the game.”

— Roger Federer

77. “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

78. “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

79. “I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.”

— Roger Federer

80. “Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I’m maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often.”

— Roger Federer

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

— Roger Federer

82. “I’m proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.”

— Roger Federer

83. “Every match I go into, I’m the huge favorite. I lose a set and it’s, like, crazy.”

— Roger Federer

84. “You can’t expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.”

— Roger Federer

85. “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.”

— Roger Federer

86. “Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically...”

— Roger Federer

87. “My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.”

— Roger Federer

88. “I’m shocked every time that I’ve reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is. It strikes me and makes me obviously very happy and very proud that I’ve been able to do it for so many years at the highest of levels.”

— Roger Federer

89. “I let the evening unfold. I’m the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.”

— Roger Federer

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

— Roger Federer

91. “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

92. “My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.”

— Roger Federer