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.

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

Confidence is the most important thing in this sport, and the confidence from winning Wimbledon would make it easier to win the Olympics, too. Either would be very difficult, both even more-but the player who wins Wimbledon will be the favorite for the Olympics. It can happen.

We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

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.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.

Girls had never been important. I’d had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn’t love, because my first love was tennis.

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

The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don’t have to come to the net to finish points. That’s the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.

I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don’t pretend that.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it’s about nerves.

I’m only superstitious on the tennis court.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don’t like.

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’d rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

I’m always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

It’s more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

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

I swim almost every day, a thousand meters.