Rafael Nadal

Is more for precaution. You don’t know tomorrow what’s happen, no? But now I am happy because I don’t feel too much pain. But I can finish the match, so that’s a good sign.

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

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.

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.

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

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

I feel that love. I feel that energy. I always felt that energy when I’m playing in New York.

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

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

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.

For me, pressure is bird flu. I’m feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It’s not fun and I’m more scared of it than football.

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

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.

I have no sense of humor about losing

What distinguishes tennis is respect for one’s opponent, one’s conduct on the court.

I don’t really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I’m not going to start now.

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.

If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.

I’m realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I’m crazy.