Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.

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.

The first point is always important, more so in a Wimbledon final

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

I have no sense of humor about losing

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

I think the doubts are good in life. The people who don’t have doubts I think only two things: arrogance or not intelligence.

I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

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.

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

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.

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

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.

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'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

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 am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.

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.

I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

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.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.