Rafael Nadal

It was a very unbelievable day for me. It’s special to begin the clay season like this. Beating Roger in the final is even more special, it’s great.

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.

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.

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

In the second, I told myself just to hold my serve and try and be aggressive on his serve, and hopefully get a break. I also applied more topspin on my forehand. Once I won the second game after being 0-30 down, my confidence also went up.

The first match is never easy. To play three sets with some important moments, that’s important for the confidence.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

God is the same everywhere.

The ordinary mind is the way.

I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Great morning!! Dear God, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for EVERYTHING! Especially my healthy baby girl!

I dressed the part and slipped into my Sunday best. I peeled open the heavy doors to every church I could find.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.