Rafael Nadal Quotes

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

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you dont have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when youve finished, nothings changed. Youve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

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.

I don't expect never an easy match. I always expect difficult matches.

I am not a person who I am thinking about what I achieved or what I don't achieve. I am a person who try to enjoy the moment. That's what I do.

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.

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

I'm really, really emotional.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

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.

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

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.

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.

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.

I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.

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.

I think is about confidence. Is about doing the right things. Is about being healthy. Is not about if I want to work or if I don't want to work. Is about if I can work or if I can't work.

In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

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.

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

Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.

My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

Confidence is the most important thing in this sport, and the confidence from winning Wimbledon would make it easier to win the Olympics, too. Either would be very difficult, both even more-but the player who wins Wimbledon will be the favorite for the Olympics. It can happen.

I just try to win the match by fighting for every point, and running down every ball.

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play...but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well...and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!

I take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.

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

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

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

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.

Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.

The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

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.

I have no sense of humor about losing

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

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