Rafael Quotes

All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That's also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.

It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

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

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

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

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

I'm really, really emotional.

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.

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.

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

I dont have good luck in the match points.

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

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

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

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.

The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

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.

Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.

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

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

We're (Juan Gonzalez) like brothers. I'm sure he was very happy to see me get it done, and it's not very long from his day, so hopefully I'll see that and we'll be on the same team.

Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game

I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.

I make stupid errors because I don't concentrate. I let things bother me.

Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.

It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.

I think my power comes from my hands.

My goal is to play hard and give the city a chance for a championship.

I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.