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Toni Nadal: "Las claves de Rafa son la humildad, el esfuerzo y el entusiasmo"
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HIS PUPIL'S SECRETS REVEALED
Toni Nadal: "The keys to Rafa's success are humility, effort and enthusiasm"
Antoni Nadal, Rafael Nadal's personal trainer and uncle, points to "humility, effort and enthusiasm" as being the keys to the success of the present number two in the world, but says that what is outstanding about him is his great worth as a human being.
"The formation of a sportsperson as a human being is very important, because you are better if you are well brought up and educated. People have come to value the fact that Rafa puts so much enthusiasm into his game and that he is an appreciative courteous person. That is the success that is most important, the rest is fleeting," explained Nadal at the Barcelona Real Club de Tenis.
The reigning Roland Garros champion's trainer, under the attentive gaze of the Honorary President of the Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, analyzed the human angle of his work on which "the good success management" which his nephew seems to enjoy is based. "I tried to carry out his formation as a tennis player together with that of him as a human being, because it is easier to assimilate success if you are well formed as a person," stated Nadal, who declared that "on seeing that Rafa was already a good player as a child" he did not want to risk discovering in him "the dreadful attitudes that you see in some sports stars".
The pillars on which a star is educated
Antoni Nadal affirmed that one of the pillars of this education is to have "clear objectives". "Rafa has always known what he wants to achieve and he has set himself objectives in harmony with his effort, which is essential so as not to leave everything to chance. He has always had this quite clear and he is a real professional who has buckled down to hard work since he was very young," he asserted.
"It is important to demand a lot of oneself. Things do not depend on others: one has to make the maximum effort oneself and profit from everything one does," declared Rafa Nadal's uncle, who first saw his nephew play tennis when he was three and then start doing so on a regular basis at the age of four, when his "great talent" became obvious.
"Like most unaffected people, Rafa has had the right environment to grow up in. In the family we didn't make a big deal of his success because he was just a child who played at hitting a ball over a net," explained Antoni Nadal, who affirmed that he had always behaved "very simply".
A professional from the age of eight
According to Antoni Nadal, his nephew has worked "like a professional" from the age of eight, although he did not give up his studies to devote himself exclusively to tennis until he was sixteen, and his only 'misfortune', "together with the fame, which overpampers whoever enjoys it", has perhaps been the incompatibility between going far in the sport and really fully enjoying himself playing.
Toni Nadal: "Las claves de Rafa son la humildad, el esfuerzo y el entusiasmo"
http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/tenis/es/desarrollo/695036.html
HIS PUPIL'S SECRETS REVEALED
Toni Nadal: "The keys to Rafa's success are humility, effort and enthusiasm"
Antoni Nadal, Rafael Nadal's personal trainer and uncle, points to "humility, effort and enthusiasm" as being the keys to the success of the present number two in the world, but says that what is outstanding about him is his great worth as a human being.
"The formation of a sportsperson as a human being is very important, because you are better if you are well brought up and educated. People have come to value the fact that Rafa puts so much enthusiasm into his game and that he is an appreciative courteous person. That is the success that is most important, the rest is fleeting," explained Nadal at the Barcelona Real Club de Tenis.
The reigning Roland Garros champion's trainer, under the attentive gaze of the Honorary President of the Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, analyzed the human angle of his work on which "the good success management" which his nephew seems to enjoy is based. "I tried to carry out his formation as a tennis player together with that of him as a human being, because it is easier to assimilate success if you are well formed as a person," stated Nadal, who declared that "on seeing that Rafa was already a good player as a child" he did not want to risk discovering in him "the dreadful attitudes that you see in some sports stars".
The pillars on which a star is educated
Antoni Nadal affirmed that one of the pillars of this education is to have "clear objectives". "Rafa has always known what he wants to achieve and he has set himself objectives in harmony with his effort, which is essential so as not to leave everything to chance. He has always had this quite clear and he is a real professional who has buckled down to hard work since he was very young," he asserted.
"It is important to demand a lot of oneself. Things do not depend on others: one has to make the maximum effort oneself and profit from everything one does," declared Rafa Nadal's uncle, who first saw his nephew play tennis when he was three and then start doing so on a regular basis at the age of four, when his "great talent" became obvious.
"Like most unaffected people, Rafa has had the right environment to grow up in. In the family we didn't make a big deal of his success because he was just a child who played at hitting a ball over a net," explained Antoni Nadal, who affirmed that he had always behaved "very simply".
A professional from the age of eight
According to Antoni Nadal, his nephew has worked "like a professional" from the age of eight, although he did not give up his studies to devote himself exclusively to tennis until he was sixteen, and his only 'misfortune', "together with the fame, which overpampers whoever enjoys it", has perhaps been the incompatibility between going far in the sport and really fully enjoying himself playing.
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