A biography for Rafael Nadalhasn’t been written yet.
“I love the crowds in Miami. I feel that is one of the tournaments where I get more support. That helps me a lot.”
“I'm really, really emotional.”
“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.”
“If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.”
“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.”
“I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.”
“I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.”
“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.”
“I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.”
“Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.”
“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 don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.”
“I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.”
“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 was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.”
“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.”
“Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.”
“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.”
“I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.”
“Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.”