The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
Rafael NadalRead
Stay healthy, do sports and above all have fun while doing sport. Competing or just for fun, whatever, simply enjoy and try your best. Working hard, working well with achievable goals normally pays off. Believe in the people that are with you and listen to those who have more experience.
Interpretation
Focus on enjoying sports while working hard and believing in your team.
This quote emphasizes the importance of enjoying sports, whether competing or playing casually, while also highlighting the value of dedication and collaboration. It suggests that having fun and setting achievable goals can lead to success, and it encourages one to trust and learn from experienced individuals.
In practice
During a sports workshop, a coach inspired the team with this quote.
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.
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.
If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.
And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.
Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit
Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.
On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas, hold one another up, determined to make their mark, to bite back at the dreams sold to them in newspaper advertisements and on the radio. They have sores on their feet but stars in their eyes.
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