Federer says he was never one to "party like a rock star"

In new remarks harking back to an earlier phase of his career, Roger Federer notes that he didn't really struggle with the rigors of leaving home at age 14 to focus on training and maximizing his budding talent.

It has, suffice to say, taken him far.

"In the beginning I thought—it sounds bad—but [that I] sacrificed my childhood," he says, as reported at ATPTour.com. "I don't feel like I did. In the beginning, you get a lot of questions about, 'Do you feel like you regret so many things because you left school at 16, went on the road, couldn't party like a rock star?'"

Federer continues: "I'm like, 'It's not like I never partied. It's not like I hated my life on tour in the beginning.' It's definitely a bit of a more unusual route to adulthood."

While Nick Kyrgios goes out on the town the night before playing a legend, you have the likes of Fed committing to a career of supremacy—and moderation. Call him the anti-Redfoo.