Roger Federer Moments -- Time-Distorting Flying Backspinning Overhead
"And Federer is of this type — a type that one could call genius, or mutant, or avatar. He is never hurried or off-balance. The approaching ball hangs, for him, a split-second longer than it ought to. His movements are lithe rather than athletic. Like Ali, Jordan, Maradona, and Gretzky, he seems both less and more substantial than the men he faces" -- David Foster Wallace, "Roger Federer as Religious Experience, The New York Times, 2006.