#Toni Nadal

[janesurlife]

I don't think anyone else could have described Rafa, his career, his personality and his decision of retirement better than uncle Toni but I was surprised by the words he used to do so. I have always thought Toni as a very intense and meticulous person but this article seems like it came from the softest part of his heart where he placed his nephew surrounded with all the love he could muster. I'm not ashamed to admit it moved me to tears because it's so beautifully written.

[rafole]

tennis players as screenshots on my phone… (2)

[viejospellejos]

Rafa Nadal con tres añitos:

[rafaelnadalfans]

Rafa Roundup: Nadal's No to Coaching, Fedal's Yes to Grass-Clay Match

ARTICLES: Rafael Nadal motivated to ‘create beautiful project’ for tennis in Saudi Arabia – arabnews.com “I think it’s going to be something interesting, that people are going to know more about my personal life, my daily life trying to come back. And of course they’re going to know more about my career, even if it’s very well known around, but to know a little bit more from inside, something…

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[bluespring864]

it’s not fake! if you search up toni nadal injury djokovic the first article is about it this is the second time he’s made this “joke” 💀💀 so distasteful and disrespectful to rafa too 😭 and they asked novak’s davis cup coach about it 😭

oh my bad, google keeps getting worse. i clicked on the news section and it didn't show me anything, but a general search worked.

This is the quote:

During a conversation with the Majorca Daily Bulletin he said: “Now, what we need is, we need an injury of Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic and maybe Daniil Medvedev. We need that many... a lot of problems and then Rafa can play really good.” (source)

He's a vile man, his reported training methods are awful and i feel sorry for Rafa that someone like that is such an important part of his career and family. Let's not make this about Novak specifically though, because he just wished injury on several people. But 💀

[entrena10]

ENTRENANDO ENTRENA10

Los deportistas de élite dedican el 98% de su tiempo a entrenar, y el 2% restante a competir. Generalmente en la vida dedicamos el 98% de nuestro tiempo a “competir”  y el 2% restante a “entrenar”. ¿Imaginas cuáles serían tus resultados si entrenases en la vida como un deportista de élite? Pasar de imaginártelo a hacerlo es el propósito que tiene entrena10, porque  “en la vida todo se puede…

[wimbledonstrawberry]

holger rune via instagram: rafa, you were the greatest inspiration and we all wanted to be you.

[zingaplanet]

Toni basically calling his nephew and his 20-year crush idiots for breaking the logic of competition like...

[thelionsship]

Doodle : Rafael Na-meow 🐈🎾

*cat thief*

*🥲*

[alacants]

can't believe i missed toni nadal throwing shade at juanki in a completely unrelated interview... incomplete background research. i will reflect on my actions.

[janesurlife]

Uncle Toni pulling on my heart strings 😭

[studiokairoro]

in honour of Rafael Nadal's retirement, here are some of my favourite quotes from his biography:

"Losing always hurts, but it hurts much more when you had your chance and threw it away. I had beaten myself down and I hated that. I had flagged mentally, I had allowed myself to get distracted; I had veered from my game plan. So stupid, so unnecessary. So obviously, so exactly what you should not do in a big game." p. 3.

"...I cannot bear the thought of squandering an opportunity that might never come again." p. 3.

"I bore the single-minded conviction that I had it in me to win. Tennis against a rival with whom you're evenly matched, or whom you have a chance of beating, is all about raising your game when its needed. A champion plays at his best not in the opening rounds of a tournament but in the semi-finals and the finals against the best opponents, and a great tennis champion plays his best in a Grand Slam final. I had my fears- I was in a constant battle to contain my nerves- but I fought them down, and the one thought that occupied my brain was that today I'd rise to the occasion." p.7.

"And of one thing I have no doubt: the more you train, the better your feeling. Tennis is, more than other sports, a sport of the mind, it is the player who has those good sensations on the most days, who manages to isolate himself best from his fears and his ups and downs in morale a match inevitably brings..." p. 8.

"You have to cage yourself in protective armour, turn yourself into a bloodless warrior. It's a kind of self-hypnosis, a game you play, with deadly seriousness, to disguise your own weaknesses from yourself, as well as from your rival." p.11.

"Nothing exists but the battle ahead." p.12.

"Don't lose sight of the game plan. Do what you have to do... So be alert, be patient, don't be rash." p.15.

"Being concentrated means keep doing what you know you have to do, never changing your plan, unless the circumstances of a rally or game change exceptionally enough to warrant a surprise. It means discipline, it means holding back when the temptation arises to go for broke. Fighting that temptation means keeping your impatience or frustration in check." p. 16.

"I build a wall around myself when I play, but my family is the cement that holds the wall together." p.18.

"My immediate family, my extended family and my professional team stand in three concentric rings around me. Not only do they cocoon me from the dangerously distracting hurly-burly that comes with money and fame, together they create the environment of affection and trust I need to allow my talent to flower. Each individual member of the group compliments me where I am weak, boosting me where I am strong. To imagine my good fortune and success in their absence is to imagine the impossible." p.19.

"The nerves are working for you, not against you." p.33.

"I am not a model of healthy eating, not for a professional athlete anyway..." p.33-34.

"But I learned to internalise that anger too, not to fret at the injustice, to accept it and get on with it. Yes, [Toni Nadal] might have gone too far, but its worked very well for me." p.39.

"And to think straight, you have to keep your cool." p.52.

"...but all the fun I had then can't make up for the pain I'm feeling right now. I never want to feel this way again." p.54.

"You put that failure immediately behind you, clean out your mind. You do not allow your mind to dwell on it." p. 55.

"Because its all in your head, in your attitude, in wanting more, in enduring your rival... Look you've got two roads to choose from: tell yourself you've had enough and we leave, or be prepared to suffer and keep going. The choice is between enduring and giving up." p.59.

"[Rafael] knows his place in the world. Everybody should know their place in the world." p.64.

"...it is more important to be a good person than a good player." p.66.

"The greater the effort, the greater the value." p.67.

"You can't let yourself be demoralized; you have to remember- or you have to convince yourself- that he cannot possibly sustain that level of play game after game, that... he is human too, that if you stay cool and stick to your game plan and keep trying to wear him down and make him uncomfortable, then he'll leave that zone sooner or later." p.70.

"It's a question of concentration, of putting everything out of your mind beyond the game itself... the adrenaline of competition helps kill the pain." p.75.

"I can never repay my parents for what they have given me, but the best thing I can do for them is try and remain faithful to the values they've instilled in me, try to be 'good people,' because I know that nothing would hurt them more or make them feel more betrayed than if I were not... Because a victory for me is a victory for [the family]." p.87.

"Everybody tries to take lessons from defeat, but I try to take them from my victories too...At the moment of triumph, yes, drink in the euphoria. But later on, when you watch the match you've won, you often realise- sometimes with a shudder- how very close you came to losing. And then you have to analyse why: was it because I lost concentration or was it because there are facets of my game I have to improve, or both?" p.99.

"If you give your opponent more credit, if you accept that he played a shot you could do nothing about, if you play the part of the spectator for a moment and generously acknowledge a magnificent piece of play, there you win balance and inner calm." p.100.

"It is possible to do everything, I believe, but always keeping a balance, never ever losing track of what's important." p.105.

"...first, that you must enjoy what you do; and second, that the chances that come your way once won't necessarily come your way again, so you squeeze the most you possibly can out of every opportunity, every single time, as if it were your last." p.110.

“When that happens, you become afraid to let fly, you don’t give rein to your natural game, and everything becomes much more complicated.” p. 142.

“…and I understood immediately that, for all the years of hard work I had put in, this victory had not been mine alone… however great your dedication, you never win anything alone. The French Open was my reward, and my family’s reward too.” p. 144.

“I had tasted victory at the highest level; I had liked it and I wanted more.” p. 144.

“Because from that time on I saw that I would never know entirely for sure whether a match I was playing would be my last. This understanding led me to one conclusion: I’d have to play each one, and train for each one, as if it were my last.” p. 155.

“But it wasn’t the fear of losing that was causing it. It was the fear of winning.” p. 162.

“Enduring means accepting.” p. 175

“I had learned my lesson and felt capable of putting it into practise.” p. 176.

“I’m never satisfied, I always want more. Or at any rate, I want to push myself to the very limit of my abilities.” p. 179.

“…however small the possibility might be of victory, fight to the very end. The reward is too great for you not to make the effort. So many times, due to dismay or exhaustion, players don’t put up the battle circumstances demand, but if there is one chance, just one, you must fight on until all is lost.” p. 185.

“I had to beat myself before I could beat Federer.” p. 196.

“Federer learned in that final that to beat Rafa you have to stomp him not once, not twice, but many, many times. You think he’s dead, in a point or in a game or in a set, but he keeps on coming back.” p. 202.

“…your emotional state is paramount to success. The better you are within yourself, the better your chances of playing well.” p. 212.

“So its up to you whether you rise above the pain and the exhaustion and summon up the desire to win… anybody who digs enough can always find the motivation they need for anything.” p. 226.

“…you always have to hang in there, that however remote your chances of winning might seem, you have to push yourself to the very limit of your abilities and try your luck.” p. 230.

“…if your head is in permanent stress, you sleep little and your mind is distracted…the impact on your body is devastating.” p. 245.

“The expression on your face conditions to a significant degree your state of mind and…the functioning of your body.” p. 259.

“Some players explode with anger when their opponent is dominating them. But there’s no point. It can only do you harm. You just have to think, “I can’t do anything about this, so why worry?”” p. 277.

“Weather the storm…If I can’t come back on the next point, I will on the one after that.” p. 278.

“…bow before the inevitable and move on.” p. 278.

“I’m making calculations all the time as I play, trying to judge the best tactic considering how I am feeling at a given moment, my sense of the opponent’s morale and how the score is going.” p. 279.

“…the will to win and the will to prepare are one and the same.” p. 282.

“I’d made it as far as I had because I had never lost sight of my priorities.” p. 283.

“…if you make an effort in training when you don’t especially feel like making it, the payoff is that you will win games when you are not feeling your best.” p. 287.

Gracias Rafa for everything. Forever my idol in not only sports, but in all facets of my life.

[rafaelnadalfans]

Uncle Toni: "I Won't Be Able to Attend Rafa's Farewell at the Davis Cup"

AP Photo/Bernat Armangue While many fans, athletes, and tennis lovers are eagerly trying to secure tickets for Rafael Nadal’s farewell at this year’s Davis Cup Final 8 in Malaga, one important person in Rafa’s life mentioned in a radio interview that he won’t be able to attend. His uncle and longtime coach since his first steps on the tennis court, Toni Nadal, told Radio Marca: “I knew that…

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[manleycollins]

This is the very first Olympics I watched the opening ceremonies via television in its entirety.

Go France 🇫🇷, Go Cameroon 🇨🇲, Go Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo, Go Great Britain 🇬🇧, Go Ireland 🇮🇪, Go United States of America 🇺🇸! These are the countries who made who I am today or at least at birth.

Theme:

Legality, Equality, Fraternity, Sorority, Sportivity, Festivity, Obsecurity, Solidarity, Solemntity, Eternity.

Those minions were the funniest 🤣 😂 ever shown. Another funniest, but important moment was watching the soldier or military band dancing, marching, and singing 🎶 around Aya Nakamura.

How many teachers, professors, or any type of educators agree that World 🌎 Geography needs to be done over? Thanks to Google Maps and Apple Maps for helping me find over twenty (20) new countries. ROTFL 🤣! I discovered that Tavulu not on any map, and Virgin Islands split in two, British and United States.

First time hearing the Olympic Oath, Olympic theme song, and the meaning of the Olympic rings. The integration of Paralympics participation.

Watching Rafeal Nadal, Serena Williams, Carl Lewis, Tony Parker with the torch. Despite wind and rain 🌧️, that Olympic torch did not go out.

Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremonies set the bar for Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion for their own people. Los Angeles 2028, I did not get the volunteer opportunity in Paris, France 🇫🇷 , but USA 🇺🇸 bet not let me down.

Thanks France TV for showing the opening ceremonies without one commercial.

This is why I view life is like the Olympics, but my fight, sportsmanship, and competition is everyday, every year, every season, every decade, and every second of each day.