Rafael Nadal Quotes

I'm delighted and feel incredibly happy with what have been an amazing two months.

It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.

Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

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You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

And of one thing I have no doubt: the more you train, the better your feeling. Tennis is, more than most sports, a sport of the mind; it is the player who has those good sensations on the most days, who manages to isolate himself best from his fears and from the ups and downs in morale a match inevitably brings, who ends up being world number one.

He's a fantastic player and he's going to be around so much longer so I'm happy with every one I get before he takes them all

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I'm not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things,

I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

I'm delighted with the way I'm playing at the moment

The problem nowadays is that children have become too much the center of attention. Their parents, their families, everybody around them feels a need to put them on a pedestal. So much effort is invested in boosting their self-esteem that they are made to feel special in and of themselves, without having done anything.

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

I am No. 8 in the world. I am not No. 100.

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.

If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.

I think the doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things: arrogance or not intelligence.

I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.

Always I believe that I can play better. But I am happy.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I feel that love. I feel that energy. I always felt that energy when I'm playing in New York.

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.

I dont have good luck in the match points.

I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

I'm really, really emotional.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to wait a little bit for your time. I'm going to wait and I'm going to try a sixth time. And if the sixth doesn't happen, a seventh. It's going to be like this. That's the spirit of sport.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

Stay healthy, do sports and above all have fun while doing sport. Competing or just for fun, whatever, simply enjoy and try your best. Working hard, working well with achievable goals normally pays off. Believe in the people that are with you and listen to those who have more experience.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

The first point is always important, more so in a Wimbledon final

If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.

It's the same old story, all you think about is money.

That's painful always to lose.

I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.

I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play ... but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well ... and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.