Rafael Nadal Quotes

"If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things."

"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."

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

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering."

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

"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."

"I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis."

"I'm only superstitious on the tennis court."

"I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis."

"In my humble opinion, change is stupid."

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

"The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"New York is a special place; it's a city that I love."

"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."

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

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

"I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no."