Rafael Nadal

I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that’s upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I’m scared. There’s not one player in the world who isn’t nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

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.

It was a very unbelievable day for me. It’s special to begin the clay season like this. Beating Roger in the final is even more special, it’s great.

It is important to recognize the small successes.

I play because I have fun, if I don’t have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.

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

It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.