I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be ...
RAFAEL NADAL In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
RAFAEL NADAL It's not the time to look for excuses.
RAFAEL NADAL I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods o...
RAFAEL NADAL You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash u...
RAFAEL NADAL As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self...
RAFAEL NADAL I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
RAFAEL NADAL I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here...
RAFAEL NADAL I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
RAFAEL NADAL Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
RAFAEL NADAL I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.
RAFAEL NADAL No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
RAFAEL NADAL The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, becaus...
RAFAEL NADAL Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, becaus...
RAFAEL NADAL You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing...
RAFAEL NADAL To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
RAFAEL NADAL I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is t...
RAFAEL NADAL If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
RAFAEL NADAL I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a s...
RAFAEL NADAL I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.
RAFAEL NADAL Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the s...
RAFAEL NADAL I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
RAFAEL NADAL I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I&...
RAFAEL NADAL I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
RAFAEL NADAL I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm cluele...
RAFAEL NADAL My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the t...
RAFAEL NADAL The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying prac...
RAFAEL NADAL I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.
RAFAEL NADAL To be honest, I haven't felt at my best since this tournament began. I didn't feel good with the cou...
RAFAEL NADAL I always say Wimbledon is special for me because only one Spanish player - Manuel Santana (1966) - w...
RAFAEL NADAL We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see...
RAFAEL NADAL If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
RAFAEL NADAL Well, it's never nice to get stung by a bee of course, and it's even more strange for it to happen i...
RAFAEL NADAL Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and ...
RAFAEL NADAL Is more for precaution. You don't know tomorrow what's happen, no? But now I am happy because I don'...
RAFAEL NADAL It's a close game and not as easy as it seemed. I do the break at the first set, and played better a...
RAFAEL NADAL Two sets behind, he was playing great, ... How many aces did he make? ... I didn't even see the ball...
RAFAEL NADAL It's O.K., ... I had a jam on my finger, but it's O.K.
RAFAEL NADAL In the second and third sets, I played a little bit more aggressively. I think that was the decisive...
RAFAEL NADAL I played more aggressively in the second and third set, that was really effective for me and gave me...
RAFAEL NADAL As long as I got my pants back...
RAFAEL NADAL I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me,
RAFAEL NADAL I'm number one in the tournament, but number one doesn't always win,
RAFAEL NADAL I don't want to think about it because I always want to stay the same, ... I only want to think abou...
RAFAEL NADAL I played almost four hours today, ... I'm very, very tired.
RAFAEL NADAL I lost a little bit of confidence about me, ... I am not playing good this week...There are moments ...
RAFAEL NADAL 100% to win this match.
RAFAEL NADAL The favorite is always the No. 1. I can win. Blake can win. But the favorite is the No. 1.
RAFAEL NADAL I'm delighted. It's incredible to be in another final and even more special to do it in Madrid.
RAFAEL NADAL To beat Roger is always special. Every match is different. This one was easy at first and then becam...
RAFAEL NADAL I like playing on grass a lot, but I know it's not my best surface, it's a little bit fast.
RAFAEL NADAL I watched my gestures, ... Usually, I would be more pumped up. I tried not to show as much. He's a v...
RAFAEL NADAL I watched my gestures. Usually, I would be more pumped up. I tried not to show as much. He's a very ...
RAFAEL NADAL Because he's the number one. And in the finals, for me, always the favorite is the best. For sure Bl...
RAFAEL NADAL For me it's incredible to have reached another Master Series final and even more so given that it is...
RAFAEL NADAL It's something special to be in a Masters Series final, indoors and especially if it's Madrid, which...
RAFAEL NADAL Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to p...
RAFAEL NADAL The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.
RAFAEL NADAL I played bad, he played better.
RAFAEL NADAL I don't have good luck in the match points.
RAFAEL NADAL The first match is never easy. To play three sets with some important moments, that's important for ...
RAFAEL NADAL I'm playing really well this week,
RAFAEL NADAL If I continue like this I will have good results.
RAFAEL NADAL As long as I am in good form, I am able to win any match on both clay and hard.
RAFAEL NADAL It's incredible to be in the final and beat the number one in the world.
RAFAEL NADAL Pressure affected us both, and I think probably, with everything that has been said, he had more pre...
RAFAEL NADAL He's lost only three matches this year. It's amazing. I can't be number one this year but I'm still ...
RAFAEL NADAL Federer is the No. 1 in tennis, and if I meet him in the Masters Cup, I'll play a world No. 1. It wi...
RAFAEL NADAL Waiting didn't affect my performance at all,
RAFAEL NADAL I played for four hours today so I'm a bit tired but I'm confident I can win tomorrow,
RAFAEL NADAL If I am playing well, I can play well on this court, ... I am very happy that I am in the third roun...
RAFAEL NADAL I am a little bit more famous now, but I have [some change] in my life. I live in the same place. I ...
RAFAEL NADAL Roger Federer is the best player in the world. He wins everything,
RAFAEL NADAL It was the first time in the tournament I was a bit nervous,
RAFAEL NADAL I never thought I would win (this many tournaments) before the beginning of the year.
RAFAEL NADAL I'd love to meet Agassi in the final but I learned my lesson a long time ago not to take anything fo...
RAFAEL NADAL I think now is a little bit different, no?
RAFAEL NADAL I always play well when the important match arrives. I hope that this time is not the exception.
RAFAEL NADAL I think these are good changes. I have already played some doubles and will continue to do so in the...
RAFAEL NADAL I am very happy to be in the third round. This is my best result here.
RAFAEL NADAL I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football ...
RAFAEL NADAL My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation...
RAFAEL NADAL My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can&...
RAFAEL NADAL This year is almost impossible to repeat,
RAFAEL NADAL I have no sense of humor about losing
RAFAEL NADAL You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the il...
RAFAEL NADAL I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn&...
RAFAEL NADAL I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but ...
RAFAEL NADAL I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
RAFAEL NADAL I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two ...
RAFAEL NADAL I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing...
RAFAEL NADAL Humility is the recognition of your limitations, and it is from this understanding, and this underst...
JOHN CARLIN, RAFAEL NADAL Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a ...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It&...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she w...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to you...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is ch...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn&...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear de...
RAFAEL VINOLY I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I wa...
RAFAEL VINOLY The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that ...
RAFAEL VINOLY Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In ...
RAFAEL VINOLY Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowi...
RAFAEL VINOLY I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When...
RAFAEL VINOLY I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteri...
RAFAEL VINOLY Buildings are forms of performances.
RAFAEL VINOLY I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't k...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO Baseball gets better for whatever reason.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 ye...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go ...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I love baseball, and the door remains open.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined m...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take some...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. A...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel C...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I'...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse sta...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and un...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I have never used steroids. Period.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the id...
RAFAEL MONEO I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative ...
RAFAEL MONEO I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand...
RAFAEL MONEO Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
RAFAEL MONEO Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to peop...
RAFAEL CRUZ I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our thro...
RAFAEL CRUZ As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of yo...
RAFAEL CRUZ The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.
RAFAEL CRUZ One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-ye...
RAFAEL CRUZ Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Decl...
RAFAEL CRUZ Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly p...
RAFAEL CRUZ Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
RAFAEL CRUZ If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year...
RAFAEL CRUZ We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indone...
RAFAEL CRUZ Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social...
RAFAEL CRUZ I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found mysel...
RAFAEL CRUZ I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
RAFAEL CORREA I'm a pacifist by nature.
RAFAEL CORREA There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, t...
RAFAEL CORREA We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to ...
RAFAEL CORREA It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives...
RAFAEL CORREA I am an economist, not an astrologer.
RAFAEL CORREA They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship a...
RAFAEL CORREA Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
RAFAEL CORREA The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has ...
RAFAEL CORREA Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
RAFAEL CORREA We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is fre...
RAFAEL CORREA He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimo...
RAFAEL SABATINI The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Di...
RAFAEL CORREA After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any...
RAFAEL CORREA You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clea...
RAFAEL CRUZ Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatn...
RAFAEL CRUZ To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolut...
RAFAEL CORREA You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to rea...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody e...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO We have qualified for the final which means we have done a good job. When you have your supporters b...
RAFAEL BENITEZ Nobody is more frustrated and disappointed in me than I am. ... All my accomplishments are now taint...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I've been on a lot of good infields. I played on a good one in Baltimore, ... But this one has the p...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO [The Wyman Institute is urging the three entertainers to publicly retract their] inaccurate and hurt...
RAFAEL MEDOFF We have 70 points and that would normally ensure you finish in the top three now. One more win shoul...
RAFAEL BENITEZ She didn't like the dirt in her face and started jumping around. She started to close strongly at th...
RAFAEL BEJARANO Luis said to me that as he turned away, he was right on the line, and he said the ball was over the ...
RAFAEL BENITEZ I don't think I have the words to express how I feel at this moment.
RAFAEL BENITEZ Maybe they are afraid. I hope they will be after the weekend.
RAFAEL BENITEZ When they start talking and talking about us, it shows they are worried about playing Liverpool,
RAFAEL BENITEZ We created a lot of chances and the other team didn't. It was difficult, but we did all the things w...
RAFAEL BENITEZ The games we have coming up are all going to be really important for us. We need to approach all of ...
RAFAEL BENITEZ I think I have the best strike force in the Premiership, ... But it gives me a selection headache an...
RAFAEL BENITEZ My idea is to have two players for each position, ... If you have a strong squad you can play all th...
RAFAEL BENITEZ It's very important for the club, the manager, the fans and everybody to be in the Champions League ...
RAFAEL BENITEZ If you play in the final, it's for winning, not for losing
RAFAEL BENITEZ People are saying that we are not making signings -- but I say we will sign the best. I have discuss...
RAFAEL BENITEZ At Valencia we changed the players virtually every match, maybe we will not be able to do that just ...
RAFAEL BENITEZ It is not easy to produce performances like this when we have so many players who are tired after so...
RAFAEL BENITEZ There is now a lot of money in football and teams want to sign the best players.
RAFAEL BENITEZ Bolton are very difficult to play against and they had a lot of free-kicks and throw-ins and you can...
RAFAEL BENITEZ It's true we need to score more goals, because we are creating chances.
RAFAEL BENITEZ I know Crouch is very good in the air, he can keep the ball and always knows what to do with it
RAFAEL BENITEZ Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supp...
RAFAEL BENITEZ We never wanted to pay more for a player than his value,
RAFAEL BENITEZ The idea is, he goes away, plays more games and comes back a better player. If it works out like tha...
RAFAEL BENITEZ We must enjoy this trophy and we have five more days for talking about these other things.
RAFAEL BENITEZ We need a new mentality in the Premier League, especially away from home, and when we have that, thi...
RAFAEL BENITEZ It was against a team that we would be expecting to fight for qualification. They are a very good te...
RAFAEL BENITEZ I saw Sir Alex once to say hello,
RAFAEL BENITEZ We feel that it is going to be a very classy event.
RAFAEL FELICIANO It's preferable to invite Cuba than to exclude it,
RAFAEL CALDERA It's nice and quiet. That's the way I like it. I don't like a lot of noise.
RAFAEL BETANCOURT