Top 172 Quotes & Sayings by Rafael Nadal - Page 3

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.

Is always the motivation to play better and better. But I think we are in a very good way to keep winning matches. That's most important thing for me.

Win 10 times in an important event like Monte-Carlo is something difficult to describe the feeling. Every year have been a different feeling. At the same time is always a unique moment every time I have this trophy with me.

The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.

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

I do notice that I am tired.

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 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.

I am going to fight for important things.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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'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 am No. 8 in the world. I am not No. 100.

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.

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

What happened happened. Important thing is what can come.

Most important thing, I am not a player who win the serves because I serve aces or free points, no. When I winning a lot of serves is because I am playing well from the baseline. That's why.

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.

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 am satisfied the way that I am playing. Is obvious that there is always things to improve.

Everybody is doing the best things possible to still healthy and to play as long as possible.

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.

It's the same old story, all you think about is money.

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.

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

I'm delighted with the way I'm playing at the moment

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.

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.

Every girl has her own character, every boy his own mind.

If you are healthy, you can work. If you can work, then the chances of success are higher.

Always I believe that I can play better. But I am happy.

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

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.

I feel that love. I feel that energy. I always felt that energy when I'm playing in New York.

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

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.

I'm delighted and feel incredibly happy with what have been an amazing two months.

If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.

Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.

I dont have good luck in the match points.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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