Rafael Nadal

Stay healthy, do sports and above all have fun while doing sport. Competing or just for fun, whatever, simply enjoy and try your best. Working hard, working well with achievable goals normally pays off. Believe in the people that are with you and listen to those who have more experience.

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

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

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.

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you’re doing.

Gaudio is playing very well. Today he played at an incredible level, especially on his backhand. But I am only thinking of my own game, and of playing well.

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.

We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

I’m realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I’m crazy.

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

When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to wait a little bit for your time. I’m going to wait and I’m going to try a sixth time. And if the sixth doesn’t happen, a seventh. It’s going to be like this. That’s the spirit of sport.

The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls,… My life was all about tennis. My office was the whole world. The word home didn’t really exist.

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

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.

I’d rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

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.

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

More than anything, believe that you can win.

There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.