Rafael Quotes

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

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.

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.

If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

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

You must wait until the end, and at the end of the season you can say it was a good or a bad season.

Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

You’re not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy’s also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first.

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.

Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

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.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

The champions are the team with the most points...if United have more points, it means they have more points, that's all. Nothing else.

As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

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.

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

I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

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.

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

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please.

I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

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.

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.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

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

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.

That's painful always to lose.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and we flourish.

I think is about confidence. Is about doing the right things. Is about being healthy. Is not about if I want to work or if I don't want to work. Is about if I can work or if I can't work.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion