Rafael Nadal Player Quotations

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.

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.

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.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

I think it is unbelievable to win against the best player in the world - perhaps the best in the history of the game. It was also special because I was out of the game for more than three months. I cried because I was happy.

It is unbelievable to me that I can win against the best player in the world, against one of the best in history. It's very important and very special for me, especially because I was three months off the court.

I am very young. He's unbelievable player. For me, he's the best, for sure. One of the best in history and he's the best player now, by far. If you look at the rankings, and the points and the Grand Slams leads, we don't have comparison.

I am very young, and he is an unbelievable player, one of the best in history and the best player now by far. If you look at the rankings, if you look at the points, if you look at the Grand Slam titles, we don't have competition. And also the most important factor is that he is better than me.

He's in a good moment. When a player stays in a good moment with confidence, he's always difficult. He's playing good, for sure. He can stay in the top 10 because he's playing very good.

Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play...but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well...and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!

Confidence is the most important thing in this sport, and the confidence from winning Wimbledon would make it easier to win the Olympics, too. Either would be very difficult, both even more-but the player who wins Wimbledon will be the favorite for the Olympics. It can happen.

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.

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

Today people hit the ball with much more strength. Almost every player is capable of playing a winning stroke from any position. This means the balls arrive more quickly. If you want to reach them, you have to slow down from a high speed or suddenly change direction. These are moments when you can injure yourself, and that's what wears us out.

Certainly I would like to have some of the qualities of other players and obviously from Roger Federer. But believe me, there are plenty of other abilities that are important, particularly mindset and strength.

He's a fantastic player and he's going to be around so much longer so I'm happy with every one I get before he takes them all

It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.

The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.

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 became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.

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.

It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.