Rafael Nadal Quotes
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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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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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.
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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.' 5
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.
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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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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'm really, really emotional.
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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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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 am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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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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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.
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We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.