Rafael Nadal
I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.Collection: Shorts
I'm delighted and feel incredibly happy with what have been an amazing two months.Collection: Two
I feel that love. I feel that energy. I always felt that energy when I'm playing in New York.Collection: New York
If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.Collection: Beach
Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.Collection: Sports
I'm delighted with the way I'm playing at the momentCollection: Delight
Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.Collection: Opinion
I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...Collection: Latin
For me, that's the most important thing, feel myself happy when I am playing. If I am healthy and I feel myself competitive, I am happy. Then is obvious I would like to win. But I know if I am in finals of important events, the normal thing is I finally win titles.Collection: Winning
Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.Collection: Disadvantages
I am satisfied the way that I am playing. Is obvious that there is always things to improve.Collection: Obvious
What happened happened. Important thing is what can come.Collection: Important
Seriously, I am not a person that I think much about what happened or what didn't happen or what could happen. I happy about the things that happened to me. I'm a lucky person, for sure, for all the things that happened to me during my life.Collection: Thinking
It is no longer enough to play very well. You need to be able to give an answer at all times and everywhere. You cannot hide. This has something to do with maturity, and that is something you only acquire over the years.Collection: Maturity
The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.Collection: Athlete
Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.Collection: Soccer
I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.Collection: Player
I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.Collection: Fun
I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.Collection: Tired
I don't think about how going to be the match. I think about try to do the right things to win. I don't think about how easy can say or how tough can say. I go on court. I try my best.Collection: Thinking
I am No. 8 in the world. I am not No. 100.Collection: World
I am going to fight for important things.Collection: Fighting
It's the same old story, all you think about is money.Collection: Thinking
If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.Collection: Winning
The bad thing about the [tennis] calendar is how it is made and obligates you to play tournaments all year. If you want to achieve the most you can (and) go as high up (in the rankings) as you can, you have to play from the start to the finish because there are important tournaments from the beginning to the end.Collection: Years
Barcelona, the tournament is, for all the Spanish players, an amazing event. I think is one of the top events on tour because is a historic event with a lot of tradition. A lot of years of the tournament, a lot of great players have been playing there. And it's in a real tennis club.Collection: Real
There is some moments on the career of everyone that are important ones. Is obvious that first title on clay makes a big difference. After that, I was confident enough to keep going, winning in Barcelona, in Rome, then in Roland Garros.Collection: Winning
I feel lucky to keep playing tennis, being healthy all those years, to compete in one of the most beautiful events of the year, without a doubt.Collection: Beautiful
Everybody is doing the best things possible to still healthy and to play as long as possible.Collection: Long
Every girl has her own character, every boy his own mind.Collection: Girl
If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.Collection: Girl
Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.Collection: Player
Today people hit the ball with much more strength. Almost every player is capable of playing a winning stroke from any position. This means the balls arrive more quickly. If you want to reach them, you have to slow down from a high speed or suddenly change direction. These are moments when you can injure yourself, and that's what wears us out.Collection: Mean
It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.Collection: Children
Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.Collection: Honesty
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.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Sports
I dont have good luck in the match points.Collection: Good Luck
Always I believe that I can play better. But I am happy.Collection: Believe
Playing well or playing bad, I have to play aggressive. I must play aggressive.Collection: Sports
I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I'm not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things.Collection: Kindness
I have no sense of humor about losingCollection: Losing
If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it.Collection: Eye
It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.Collection: Basketball
Don't think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today's program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you'll end up as number one or number 100.Collection: Thinking
There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.Collection: Wrestling
When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.Collection: Home
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.Collection: Athlete
A lot of times I had some problems, but I always had the passion and the personal motivation to keep going, to keep working hard, keep fighting for the things that really motivates me. That's all.Collection: Motivation