Rafael Nadal

If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical – I like the music. I saw ‘Mamma Mia;’ I saw ‘Les Miserables;’ I saw ‘Phantom of the Opera’ like six, seven times.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it’s just a great month of parading.

I’m really, really emotional.

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

I always think about victory. It was very important for me to stay in this final. If I play my best I have a chance (against Federer). I’m going to play aggressively, with determination.

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.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it’s a soccer match with friends or golf.

I need to improve, I want to improve, and to be able to stay in London and play on grass before Wimbledon is a very good opportunity for me.

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

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

I’m not a God, I make mistakes.

Gaudio is playing very well. Today he played at an incredible level, especially on his backhand. But I am only thinking of my own game, and of playing well.