Rafael Nadal Quotes

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.

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

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

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

I play each point like my life depends on it.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

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.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

Anyone could become a star, but everyone must be a human being.

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.

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

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Playing well or playing bad, I have to play aggressive. I must play aggressive.

I am not a person who I am thinking about what I achieved or what I don't achieve. I am a person who try to enjoy the moment. That's what I do.

It is important to recognize the small successes.

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.

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

If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it.

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.

It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

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

I have no sense of humor about losing

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.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

What distinguishes tennis is respect for one's opponent, one's conduct on the court.

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

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don't just react but are able to act and think.

I will work day after day like I did my whole life ... I'm not going to change anything.

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

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

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

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.

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.

Most important thing, I am not a player who win the serves because I serve aces or free points, no. When I winning a lot of serves is because I am playing well from the baseline. That's why.

I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.

We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

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

Don't think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today's program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you'll end up as number one or number 100.

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.

That's painful always to lose.

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.