Rafael Nadal Quotes

I've always gone through adversity in this game, and I've always overcome it. My middle school coach told me that I was probably a better hockey player than a football player, and that still drives me every day.

Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part.

I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.

The key to success is to keep your head above the water.

patience is an integral part of talent.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy lifestyle, especially when you are starting out. That being said, it definitely makes it all worth it when it does happen.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

During the next half-century or more, my race must continue passing through the severe American crucible. We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong, to withstand temptations, to economize, to acquire and use skill; our ability to compete, to succeed in commerce, to disregard the superficial for the real, the appearance for the substance, to be great and yet small, learned and yet simple, high and yet the servant of all. This, this is the passport to all that is best in the life of our Republic, and the Negro must possess it, or be de barred.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.... The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

Everyone is committed to giving their best and to putting in 100 percent in every match to win.

Sometimes they are big hurdles, but good players can overcome them. I am trying to do my best.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

You go out and do the best you can and hope it works. You just try to improve.

Winning is the easiest thing that I ever did in the NBA, but being able to come to the realization of what it means to compete in this league no matter what - win, lose or draw - was the most difficult thing.

I just got to keep competing and keep believing.

I'm going to go out there and do what I do and play football, and everything will work out.

The harder the race, the better.

I'm going to try to go out and do my best, and I'm going to try and compete every play.

We want to do something important in the World Cup, and hopefully I have the chance. If not, well, life goes on, I'll keep working the same way and supporting my teammates.