– “I threw the kitchen sink at him, but he went to look for the bathtub in the bathroom”
The American Andy Roddick after his loss in the Wimbledon final in 2004
– “In modern tennis, you are a clay court or grass or hard court specialist… or you are Roger Federer…”
Jimmy Conners
– “I have the feeling that this rivalry exceeds tennis. It is a matter of conversation for people outside our world. And that is good for our sport”
The Spanish Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open in 2017, about his duel with the Swiss.
– “He makes shots that others don’t. Sometimes you want to go to the other side and give him a high five”
The American Sam Querrey after a match at Wimbledon in 2015
– “Roger is capable of playing tennis that should be declared illegal…”
The former American player Tracy Austin
– “I would advise your next opponents not to ask me for advice”
Andrew Agassi after his loss against Federer in Australia in 2005
– “Federer is the most fantastic player to watch playing tennis”
John McEnroe
– “The best way to defeat him would be to hit him on the head with a racket”
Rod Laver
– “If I were his coach, what could I tell him? With a racket he is a magician”
Goran Ivanisevićformer Wimbledon winner
– “I’m able to cry like Roger; a pity I can’t play like him”
The British Andy Murrayafter his loss against Federer in the Australian Open final in 2010
– “The metaphysical explanation is that Roger Federer is one of the rare supernatural athletes who seems to cross, at least in part, some laws of physics”
The writer David Foster Wallace in 2006 in a New York Times editorial titled “Federer as religious experience”
– “He is a real person. He is not an enigma. If you find him in a McDonalds without knowing who he is, you could not imagine that he is one of the greatest athletes in the world”
Andy Roddick
– “It is impossible not to wonder if it is from the same planet”
Novak Djokovic
Source: Ambito
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