Monday, July 6, 2009

What you should really learn from Federer

I have combed papers across the globe online today looking for an inspired Federer headline. I have not come across one. That is true greatness. When one makes headline writers struggle to capture the immensity of one’s achievement. That, and fitness.
Roger Federer did not beat Andy Roddick yesterday at Wimbledon because he played better. He beat him because he was fitter.
Fitness has nothing to do with talent, or genius, or opportunity, or privilege. It has 100 per cent to do with mind-numbing, body-destroying, resolve-busting hard, hard work. Federer showed that without super-fitness you cannot be a legend.

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