Rafael Nadal

I only ever run when there’s some point to it – say, if it’s in a game of tennis.

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

You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

I have the same bedroom I’ve always had. It’s clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

I’ll never have a tattoo – I just don’t like them, and when you’re old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don’t like them on men.

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.

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

I love basketball.

I don’t really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I’m not going to start now.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential – maybe even above it.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

I’ve stayed calm when I’m winning and I’ve stayed calm when I’ve lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can’t celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you’re losing, as in a few days you’ll be in the next tournament and you’ll have to be ready with that.

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.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship – all these things shaped me too.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

We’ll try and be very aggressive, we’ll try and speed up and change gears, and we’ll see who’s going to win.

When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to wait a little bit for your time. I’m going to wait and I’m going to try a sixth time. And if the sixth doesn’t happen, a seventh. It’s going to be like this. That’s the spirit of sport.

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.