Rafael Nadal Quotes

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

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both – winning and losing – get easier.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.

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.

It is no longer enough to play very well. You need to be able to give an answer at all times and everywhere. You cannot hide. This has something to do with maturity, and that is something you only acquire over the years.

Don’t think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today’s program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you’ll end up as number one or number 100.

I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.

In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

I have no sense of humor about losing

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

I’m really, really emotional.

With Almagro, boy, that’ll be a tough match. He’s playing at a very high level right now and he hits the ball hard.

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

I will work day after day like I did my whole life … I’m not going to change anything.

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.

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

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I’m going to get better that day.

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

Since I was a kid, I’ve wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general … But tennis is my passion.