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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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Rafael Nadal
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: June 3
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When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.
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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.
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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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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 am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.
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If the girls and boys have talent and feel like working on themselves, they can become champions.
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I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
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I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.
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The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.
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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 just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.
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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.
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It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.
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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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