Roger Federer

“Too much routine can kill the joy. Too much constant focus can grind you down.”

“Bowerman's core point was that rest and recovery aren't a break from training. They're a central part of the mechanism that makes training work. Bowerman explains training as a simple loop. Stress. Recover. Improve. You apply a stimulus, you let the body rest,…”

“In 2020, Forbes named him the world's highest paid athlete, estimating his annual income at over a hundred million a year. That same year, only six million was from official prize money in tennis.”

“Federer chose to address his mental weaknesses when he was still quite young. He was not yet 17 when he began collaborating with Marcoli.”

“When ON goes public, Federer's stake in the company was worth about three hundred million dollars.”

“If I do feel burnout coming on, what I've tried to do is break it down to the absolute minimum. And this is the absolute minimum. That's practice matches and family. I will do less press, less autographs, less public appearances, less stuff in the public eye. …”

“He signs a ten-year apparel deal With Uniqlo, the agreement had been reported to pay Federer, that one agreement alone, had been reported to pay Federer over thirty million a year.”

“Novak Djokovic would go around at six years old. When he was six years old, he said he was gonna be the number one tennis player in the world. For Roger Federer, At age eight, Roger was going around and telling his friends that he was going to be number one.”

“When you are playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world, and it is. But when it's behind you. This mindset is really crucial because it frees you to fully commit to the next point, and the next point after that, with intensity, clarity…”

“I think the difference that Federer has is his ability to get over it quickly. He could lose Wimbledon, be crying his eyes out in the locker room or the shower, and then be at dinner with friends a few hours later.”

“The best in the world are not the best in the world because they win every point. It's because they know they'll lose again and again and again and have learned how to deal with it.”

“It was about learning to control the flames instead of extinguishing them. About converting them into slow-burning fuel rather than a bonfire of distraction.”

“In the 1526 single matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. Now I have a question for you. What percentage of points do you think I won in those matches? Only 54%. In other words, even top ranked tennis players Win barely more than hal…”