Rafael Nadal Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.

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

That's painful always to lose.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

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.

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 think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

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.

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

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

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

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.

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 like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

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'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

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.