Rafael Nadal famous quotes

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Tennis #Enemy #Losing

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Thinking #Tennis

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

#Sports #Running #Moving

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Player #Waiting

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Appreciate #Risk #Life Is

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Motivation #Games #Numbers

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Humility #Avalanches #Way

I play each point like my life depends on it.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Play #Tennis

I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Way #Problem #Solutions

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Kids #Winning #Player

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Beach #Sea

I have no sense of humor about losing
-- Rafael Nadal

#Losing #Sense Of Humor

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Honest #Being Honest #Wanted

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Player #Goal #Important

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Hard Work #Player #Winning

I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Dog #Player #Tennis

Playing well or playing bad, I have to play aggressive. I must play aggressive.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Play #Aggressive

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Winning #Player

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Player #Thinking #Might

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

#Uncles #Chinese #Language

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

#Father #Glasses #Lucky

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Morning #Believe #Practice

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

#Bases

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Latin #Singers #Wells

I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Support #Crowds #Miami

I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Running #Games #Tennis

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Play #Focus #Trying

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

#Motivation #One Day #One Day At A Time

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

#Tomorrow

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Hard Work #Winning #Healthy

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

#Important #Theory #Enjoy

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

#Soccer #Passion #Golf

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Mother #Home #Two

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sea #Fishing #Different

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Guy #World #Courageous

I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Hero #Idols

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Home #Want #Becoming

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!!!
-- Rafael Nadal

#Nice #Player #Mind

Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Opinion

He's a fantastic player and he's going to be around so much longer so I'm happy with every one I get before he takes them all
-- Rafael Nadal

#Player #Fantastic

I'm delighted with the way I'm playing at the moment
-- Rafael Nadal

#Way #Delight #Moments

Stay healthy, do sports and above all have fun while doing sport. Competing or just for fun, whatever, simply enjoy and try your best. Working hard, working well with achievable goals normally pays off. Believe in the people that are with you and listen to those who have more experience.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Fun #Believe

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Motivation #Humility #Player

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Loss #Winning

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Winning #Tennis

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

#Running #Fighting #Winning

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Love Is #Two #People

I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Golf #Games #Lasts

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Tennis #Important #Ends

I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Intensity #Whole Life

I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Spain #Not Sure

It's not the time to look for excuses.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Looks #Excuse

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Soccer #Morning #Tennis

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Shorts #Wanted

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Thinking #Player #Tennis

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Tired #Four #Today

I dont have good luck in the match points.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Good Luck #Luck #Match Point

That's painful always to lose.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Painful

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Home #Golf #Fishing

I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Real #Giving #Looks

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Fighting #Negativity #Trying

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Soccer #Player #Choices

I'm really, really emotional.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Emotional

I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Football #Uncles

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,
-- Rafael Nadal

#Kindness #Believe #Thinking

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Careers #Suffering #Enjoy

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Beach #Ice #Clay

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Winning #Order #Long

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Tattoo #Men #Piercings

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Believe #Difficult #God Exists

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Strong #Believe

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Tennis #Tennis Courts #Court

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Creating #Negative

Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Confused #Thinking #Games

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Play #Tennis #Ranking

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Winning #Games #Goal

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Tennis #Technique #Helping

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Tennis #Transition #Sometimes

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Thinking #Winning #Tennis

In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Cinema #Photograph #Bigs

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Fun #Athlete #Boys

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own
-- Rafael Nadal

#Winning #Dedication

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Kids #Thinking #Media

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Thinking #Two #People

New York is a special place; it's a city that I love.
-- Rafael Nadal

#New York #Cities #Special

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Sports #Golf #Practice

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Worry #Want #Laundry

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.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Winning #Trying #Gears

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

#Sports #Years #Play

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
-- Rafael Nadal

#Careers #Four #Lasts

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

#Get Better #Variation #Bombs