Rafael Nadal Quotes

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Rafael Nadal

Profession : Athlete

Birth : June 3, 1986

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

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

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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

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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.

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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

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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.

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It's not the time to look for excuses.

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

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Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

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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.

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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

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No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

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

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

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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

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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.

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