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.
RAFAEL NADALI 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.
More Rafael Nadal Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that’s life. There is much more important things.
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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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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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What happened happened. Important thing is what can come.
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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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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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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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It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day.
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I play each point like my life depends on it.
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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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I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
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