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.

Gaudio is playing very well. Today he played at an incredible level, especially on his backhand. But I am only thinking of my own game, and of playing well.

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

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.

The worst thing is to play too defensively. I need to play with more intensity and be aggressive. If I do that, I’m going to do well because my touch is good.

It is important to recognize the small successes.

In the second, I told myself just to hold my serve and try and be aggressive on his serve, and hopefully get a break. I also applied more topspin on my forehand. Once I won the second game after being 0-30 down, my confidence also went up.

My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.

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.

The record of Borg and Vilas? I have thought about it.

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.

If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.

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

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

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 just try to win the match by fighting for every point, and running down every ball.

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

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

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

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.