It is so nice to hear people once again speculating on the sources of Roger's greatness rather than the reasons for his decline. Here is an idea from his first coach, Seppli Kacovski:"I believe Roger is ambitious because he isn't 100 per cent Swiss. His father is Swiss, and the calmness Roger has comes from his father, but the ambition and willpower come from his mother [who is South African]."
Kacovski's analysis disagrees with the general theory of heredity offered by Friedrich Nietzsche in Human all too Human where he speculated that "the woman gives the child her intellect, and the man gives the darker quality of will."
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No, its Mirka. She knows when where and how to feed him. He has the fuel and stamina to win!
I have long believed the Mirka is the key to Roger's success. She keeps him stable and away from the sort of model-chasing that plagues men on the tour (see Vince Spadea's book on that).
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