Rafael Nadal

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.

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.

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.

All sports are continuously developing, but what they all have in common is that the speed is increasing. That’s also true of tennis; the ball is getting faster and faster.

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.

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, ‘Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don’t put everything in one basket,’ but she let me explore and be creative.

I’m convinced that what kids need today are parents – not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

What will your children be teaching your grandchildren?

You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them.

It’s her first grandchild, so she’s really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don’t spend quality time with them and you don’t pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn’t matter that they’re just around you.

[On his mother] She certainly ran her own race… I thought my mother was nuts.

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I’m going to be a real mommy.

Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.

My siblings are my best friends.