Rafael Nadal

I don’t have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

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

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

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

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.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.

That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

In our culture and in culture sometimes they make you feel a little be weird for being smart… but we are intelligent people and our dreams matter regardless of if you speak with an accent and people think that that makes you not intelligent.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.

All of life is a constant education.

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

I don’t care what their [Guns N’ Roses] record is. If you need a blood donor and the only person who can give you a transfusion is Hitler, you take the blood.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.