Rafael Nadal

I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn’t know anything about tennis.

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.

If you don’t lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

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

Playing well or playing bad, I have to play aggressive. I must play aggressive.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There’s no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

I love basketball.

I swim almost every day, a thousand meters.

Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

It’s already a great feeling to be third on the list. To get past Borg, I will have to reach the final in Barcelona next week. It won?t be easy. I could lose any day. But if I am 100 per cent I know I have a great chance of winning.

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.

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.

That’s the hard part about sport: as men we haven’t started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

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

For sure, I’m going to play less matches because I think it’s very difficult to win the same number of matches as last year. Maybe I’m going to play a little bit less, but I like playing tournaments; so if I feel good, I going to play for sure.

It is important to recognize the small successes.

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