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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 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.

Rafael Nadal

Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don’t just react but are able to act and think.
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Beautiful Player Think
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
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Country Language People Uncles
I think is about confidence. Is about doing the right things. Is about being healthy. Is not about if I want to work or if I don’t want to work. Is about if I can work or if I can’t work.
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Healthy Right Thing Think
My serve can get better, for sure. It’s not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
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Better Bomb Variation
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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Hard Player Win Work
What happened happened. Important thing is what can come.
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Happened Important Things
I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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Day Other Tomorrow Usually
Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.
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Entitled Everyone Opinion
I feel that love. I feel that energy. I always felt that energy when I’m playing in New York.
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Country Energy Feel People
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.
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Kids Media Thinking
It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.
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Day End Satisfaction Step
Seriously, I am not a person that I think much about what happened or what didn’t happen or what could happen. I happy about the things that happened to me. I’m a lucky person, for sure, for all the things that happened to me during my life.
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Happen Lucky Person Think
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.
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Athletes People Trying
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!!!
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Greatest Mind Nice Player
If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it.
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Eye Technique Think
I am not a person who I am thinking about what I achieved or what I don’t achieve. I am a person who try to enjoy the moment. That’s what I do.
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Achieve Enjoy Person Think
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.
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Hour Player Speed
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.
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Choice Player Soccer
Is only a tennis match. At the end, that’s life. There is much more important things.
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End Important Tennis
I play each point like my life depends on it.
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Depend Play Tennis
Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.
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People Player Tennis
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.
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Attitude Children Player
I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
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Father Glass Lucky
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.
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Player Tennis Think
You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it’s the right thing to do out there.
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Focus Play Try

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.

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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 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.

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