Nadal was Asked if his French Open Record will be Broken.... his Response is Priceless!

Congratulations, it was a special ceremony. Thank you so much. I know you spent all of your life pretty much in your career trying to get the most out of yourself every day the best and improve on yourself and you got to 14 Roland Garros's. How would you feel if somebody else got the most out of themselves and they got more than 14? I always said the same and even if I know that's going to be difficult being honest. I really say and I really feel that if I did it I don't consider myself. Somebody very very special another one going to come. I'm going to I'm going to chip that to putting in perspective that a lot of things needs to to to happen in your favor to make that happen because you need a long career you you don't you can't have a lot of injuries even if I had but I only retired here once 2016 but was a year that I had my chance, but you can't have injuries. You can have very very bad days. So you need some lucky to so to win 14 Grand Slams in the same place. He enrolled in Garros. That can happen. I'm going to take or it takes a while at least 30 more years. Thank you so much for everything for so many you've had this just incredible career from a young boy to just a short while ago stepping back if you could say one quality or two qualities that one aspect that give you the most satisfaction the most pride in your incredible career. Can you express that well in a few words probably determination very important and that brings to the next things, you know, passion about about every single day that you are going on a practice court. And and that's spirit of improvement. I always went on court on every single practice session with the goal to improve, you know, I never went on a tennis court. Just for practice, you know, I always went on a tennis court with the goal to improve something and that's one of the keys of my longevity and my success. I think because I had to face a lot of injuries. So without that spirit of improvement to compensate all the things that I was losing on the road. It will be impossible. So that's what I am proud about. Was the three of them being here one of those surprises or did you did you know that those three rivals of yours were going to be here? Or was that one of the surprises? Oh, you know, I didn't know but I could imagine that they come, you know, that's that's true. I you know, the agendas of the people sometimes are difficult, but of course probably they know that they're going to make that day very special. I'm going that they're going to be very special for me. Novak is playing here. So it's easier but at the same time Andy and Roger that just came in purpose mean a lot to me because the end they represent a very important part of my tennis career because in some way we push it to each other to the limits as I say it in my speech and that's the truth, you know, I think I always say the same because we were three, four, four of the best rivals. In some way when you are only two, you know, you can lose a little bit the motivation in some way sometimes because the other, you know, start losing or gets injured. But here being four, you know, you never had that margin because always one of that four were winning the tournament, you know, so that to put in perspective never allowed us to stay relaxed or to give us a break in terms of intensity in terms of determination of keep improving our game. So I think within us we show us the way to follow to be better and better and we achieved our dreams and probably because of that kind of rivalries. We raise the numbers of the history of tennis to the next level and that helps to the next generations to try to improve them and I'm sure that's not going to happen. I think the emotion from the crowd but also Roger, Novak and Andy here with you. Is it one of these moments when you realize how much you guys meant for this sport and what an incredible page of history you've written? Well, of course. No, I mean this this day at the end received tribute like I received today here in Paris in Roland-Garros in France is something very special because first of all is I am a Spanish, you know, and they make me feel when when I was playing here the last let's say 12, 15 years. They make me feel like one more French play, you know, that's it and after you know, all the respect and the love that they show me the crowd but not only crowd the organizers. Let's say, let's just let's talk about the Olympic Games giving me the possibility to receive the Olympic torch from Zizou in that in that sport in that moment of the ceremony shows, you know, how much the country and this city respect me and you can't imagine how emotional and how big in terms of happiness and personal satisfaction that represents for me, you know, so have my three biggest rivals there in the court with me meant a lot and at the same time, it's a great message for the world. I think that best rivals toughest rivalries probably in the history of our sport are able to to to be good colleagues to respect each other. You don't need to hate the opponent to try to beat him with all your forces and that's the message that I think we we showed people we showed in the new generations and in some way that's our legacy the results are there but at the same time results are just results rest of the thing is this hi congrats and thank you at the end of the tribute. We saw you talking with Andy Roger and Novak the four of you together. What did you say to them if you agree to tell it? Well asking about life families and you know, my good friend Andy that I was not able to we were not in touch for a while the day that Arsenal beat Real Madrid. When the match just finished after one second, he text me a telling me I gonna read because Marie because it's quite good. So I feel that it's it's quite interesting. Hey Rafa haven't spoken to you in a while just checking in to make sure you are. Okay. So honestly take me like five seconds to realize what I was reading because at the beginning I said, okay, he's such a nice guy. He's asking me about how I'm doing family and after five seconds I said this always British British sense of humor that by the way, I didn't text him back when Inter beat Arsenal.