Rafael Nadal Quotes

• I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn’t have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

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• 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.

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• I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I’ve always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he’s setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.

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• For sure, with golf it’s not a physically demanding sport like tennis. That’s what makes tennis great – you combine both things. It’s a very mental sport and at the same time can be dramatically physical. But I do admire the mentality of sport more than the physicality because physical performance is much easier to practice than mental performance.

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• 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.

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• Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I’m going to get better that day.

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• 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.

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• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both – winning and losing – get easier.

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

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• Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

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• New York is a special place; it’s a city that I love.

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• My serve can get better, for sure. It’s not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

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• My parents’ divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

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• My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

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• It’s hard to say, ‘I don’t believe in God.’ I would love to know if God exists. But it’s a very difficult thing for me to believe.

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• I’m lucky enough to do what I like for work – not everyone’s that fortunate.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you’re doing.

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Rafael Nadal (46)

Birth:	3rd June, 1986
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Athlete, Tennis Player

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