Rafael Nadal Quotes…
Rafael Nadal Parera “Rafa” is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is ranked world No. 5 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), has been ranked No. 1 in the ATP rankings for 209 weeks, and has finished as the Year-End No. 1 five times. Nadal has won 22 Grand Slam men’s singles titles, an all-time record. His 13 French Open titles in particular are a record at any tournament. Nadal’s dominance on Clay is also highlighted by him winning 62 of his 90 ATP Singles titles on Clay, including 26 of his 36 Masters titles. His 81 consecutive wins on Clay is the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era.
Rafael Nadal Quotes
Uptade: (BREAKING:) Rafa Nadal will miss the 2024 Australian Open due to a micro terror in his muscle.
Hi all, during my last match in Brisbane I had a small problem on a muscle that as you know made me worried. Once I got to Melbourne I have had the chance to make an MRI and I have micro tear on a muscle, not in the same part where I had the injury and that’s good news. Right now I am not ready to compete at the maximum level of exigence in 5 sets matches. I’m flying back to Spain to see my doctor, get some treatment and rest.
I have worked very hard during the year for this comeback and as I always mentioned my goal is to be at my best level in 3 months. Within the sad news for me for not being able to play in front of the amazing Melbourne crowds, this is not very bad news and we all remain positive with the evolution for the season. I really wanted to play here in Australia and I have had the chance to play a few matches that made me very happy and positive. Thanks all for the support and see you soon! Rafa
Rafael Nadal Quotes
I have no sense of humor about losing
I’m only superstitious on the tennis court.
I don’t have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
“Losing is not my enemy…fear of losing is my enemy”
The first point is always important, more so in a Wimbledon final
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.
I’m lucky enough to do what I like for work – not everyone’s that fortunate.
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
I’d rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
I’m always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
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If you don’t lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different.
Is only a tennis match. At the end, that’s life. There is much more important things.
I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
“If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn’t know anything about tennis.”
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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.
I think the doubts are good in life. The people who don’t have doubts I think only two things: arrogance or not intelligence.
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.
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.
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 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.
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn’t say that it’s more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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.
I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I’ve started to choose my own things from time to time.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I’ve improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing – doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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.
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.
I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don’t pretend that.
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.
“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.”
I’ve stayed calm when I’m winning and I’ve stayed calm when I’ve lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can’t celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you’re losing, as in a few days you’ll be in the next tournament and you’ll have to be ready with that.
“And of one thing I have no doubt: the more you train, the better your feeling. Tennis is, more than most sports, a sport of the mind; it is the player who has those good sensations on the most days, who manages to isolate himself best from his fears and from the ups and downs in morale a match inevitably brings, who ends up being world number one.”
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