Rafael Nadal

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.

I didn’t play a great match, but once I pass the first two rounds, things get easier. I’m used to the court and the conditions.

Every girl has her own character, every boy his own mind.

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.

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

I normally listen to Spanish music – well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

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 am thrilled to be the new team captain. I am sure that the pressures I’ve faced on centre court will stand me in good stead to battle it out against Ian and his team.

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.

My parents’ divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

I cannot win this year but I can play good on grass

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.

The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls,… My life was all about tennis. My office was the whole world. The word home didn’t really exist.

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 learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It’s not that they have to sink the putt and there’s a great deal of talent involved – but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.

Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?

I normally listen to Spanish music – well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

I didn’t play a great match, but once I pass the first two rounds, things get easier. I’m used to the court and the conditions.

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

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can’t do every dream that I have.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that’s the truth. And my goal is the same – it’s to always be happy playing, it’s to enjoy the game and improve always.