Rafael Nadal

I have no sense of humor about losing

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

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

I always think about victory. It was very important for me to stay in this final. If I play my best I have a chance (against Federer). I’m going to play aggressively, with determination.

The favorite is always the No. 1. I can win. Blake can win. But the favorite is the No. 1.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

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

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

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.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential – maybe even above it.

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.

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

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.

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

The guy comes up to the plate, there’s always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

It’s not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it’s in the national side where you see a player’s true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that’s why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven’t won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.

Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.

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

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.

What distinguishes tennis is respect for one’s opponent, one’s conduct on the court.

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.