The Master Quotes

“Nadal did not just embrace the moment. He gave it a bear hug and lifted it off the ground with its heels kicking.”
― Christopher Clarey, The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

“Freyss, the director of the Ecublens center and the national technical director of men’s tennis in Switzerland, could understand Federer’s distress. He had been at an academy himself in his youth: boarding at the French Tennis Federation’s training center in Nice in the 1970s along with Yannick Noah, the future French Open champion”
― Christopher Clarey, The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

“Federer, then fourteen, was in his first year as a boarding student in Ecublens, a suburb of Lausanne on Lake Geneva. He was still in his home country but very much an outsider as a youngster from German-speaking Basel. The primary language in Lausanne is French, and Federer arrived in August 1995 with a problem”
― Christopher Clarey, The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer

“Lynette was from South Africa and had met Robert at age eighteen near Johannesburg, when both were working for the Swiss chemical company Ciba-Geigy. Though Lynette’s first language was Afrikaans, she attended an English-language school at her father’s insistence. After she and Robert moved to Switzerland and later started their family, she spoke English at first to Roger and his older sister, Diana”
― Christopher Clarey, The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer