Rafael Nadal

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed. You’ve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

It is unbelievable to me that I can win against the best player in the world, against one of the best in history. It’s very important and very special for me, especially because I was three months off the court.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

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.

I’m ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed – I can’t do it. I’m clueless.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

If you go into a union, they have got you, but what have you got?

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Scream in silence. Dance in stillness.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

But I do know there are not enough syllables to spell out how much I love you. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love… You are my every moment, my every hour, my every day, my every season, and I know this isn’t poetry and it’s certainly not a haiku, it’s just all the things I needed to say to you.

Listen to the birds and don’t hate nobody.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.