Re: Funny Federer quote


Dave Hazelwood wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:43:09 -0500, wendyg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

In article <1152903040.667003.81420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
alhabib@xxxxxxxxx (Habib) wrote:

Hard-Cell wrote:
"I used to love reading everything about me. I kind of stopped doing
that.
Even press conferences sometimes are tough to do on a daily basis,
because
you feel you're talking to a psychiatrist or something. And then you
come
out and you say, 'I can't believe I just said that.' It's kind of
difficult."

--I guess the boy's learning.

I really think you overblow his arrogance. If you just became famous,
you'd probably enjoy reading about yourself too, for a while. And then
it would get tedious.


Yup. One of my good friends wrote a first novel that came out two years
ago, and it was a publishing sensation. And at first, yes, she enjoyed
seeing the coverage and being the center of so much attention, and then
after a while she said it was just too many voices and stopped entirely.
Her SO still scans stuff sometimes (in particular, I asked him to look at
a piece I'd written about her after it was published in case there was
anything she was likely to be upset about that we'd have to deal with),
but it just got ridiculous for a while. It certainly was not arrogant of
her to enjoy the coverage at first, and it isn't of Federer either. Anyone
who becomes successful on that level has worked hard for it. My friend's
comment to a BBC interviewer at one point was that she felt she owed it to
the person who'd been shut up for ten years working on the novel (while
holding down a full-time job) to enjoy the attention and success as much
as possible.

In a situation like Roddick's, although it *sounds* like you should read
people's criticisms looking for good advice, the fact is that everyone has
their pet idea about what you need and most of the ideas conflict. In the
end, you have to decide for yourself what you need (or pick one or two
people you really trust to make that decision for you, such as a coach)
and go with that. You just *can't* take all the advice you're offered.

wg


especially when it comes from a certain self proclaimed tier 1 analyst
in rst.

i mean look at bagdahtis ?

this guy told him he was teally "on fire" so bags went out and got
pissed on by nadal to put out the fire.

:-)

.

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