Rafael Nadal

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Before, I wouldn’t have sacrificed anything for tennis but when I met Barbara it was different. I would have sacrificed tennis for Barbara.

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

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 just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

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

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

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

I had the pleasure of competing at the Olympic Games and at Wimbledon and was fortunate enough to win the gold medal in both events,

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don’t I get my own team?

I have a lot of respect for Liverpool fans and what I did, the sign of silence – ‘shut your mouth’ – was not for them, it was for the English press.

Because, to give a goal, the ball must be 100% in and he must be 100% sure that the ball is in.

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.