Rafael Nadal

I just try to win the match by fighting for every point, and running down every ball.

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.

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

For sure, I’m going to play less matches because I think it’s very difficult to win the same number of matches as last year. Maybe I’m going to play a little bit less, but I like playing tournaments; so if I feel good, I going to play for sure.

If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.

With Almagro, boy, that’ll be a tough match. He’s playing at a very high level right now and he hits the ball hard.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. Every time somebody said I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up, so I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.

We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied – whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.