Rafael Nadal

If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it.

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

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

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.

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.

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed. You’ve still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

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

Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.

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

Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don’t just react but are able to act and think.

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 take pleasure in tennis and the hope that it requires.

I’m getting excited before every single game. The trophy at the end is less important than the process itself.

I’m really, really emotional.

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

Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

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

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

The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don’t have to come to the net to finish points. That’s the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.

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.

Don’t think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today’s program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you’ll end up as number one or number 100.