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I think it's normal that, the first time you meet Federer or Murray or Djokovic, you're going to get nervous. But after a while, they become normal opponents, people you see every week. That's the way you have to think. You can't think of them as legends. When you see someone on court, you have to treat every opponent the same way.
I think tennis is going towards the direction of powerful, hard hitters, and that's what us tall people are. We are trying to play very aggressive; we're trying to make a lot of winners, and, I mean, I don't know. That's what tall players kind of do.
I think the reason my relationship works so well with my dad is that we can separate our tennis lives from our personal lives.
I try to play the same way, play the same way over a longer period of time.
I'm not going to change and get the emotions out of my game. It's important to have emotions in sport. If you don't have emotions, it's like you don't really care. Because if you care about something, you're always going to be emotional. Doesn't matter if it's sports or personal life.
I've been shadowing my brother since I was a little kid. Maybe that helped me feel more comfortable with the big guys.
Me and my brother are players that spend three to four hours in the gym every day doing running, lifting heavy weights, and doing treadmill stuff.
My success has a lot to do with Mischa. He was the one who always used to practise with me when I was little, when I was a junior.
Physically, the top players are on a different level to other players, and that's why they're on the top.
The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.
The taller you are, the bigger your serve.
There's no big secret to training. But different body, different training. With me, you have to build muscles but also stay flexible and stay kind of soft, which I am naturally.
When I was growing up, I played a lot of different sports. There was a time when I was playing field hockey, tennis, and soccer at the same time. I was actually quite good at all of those sports.
No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.
When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.
Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.
Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.
The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.
You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.
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