Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
Anyone who can pick up a house spider with their bare hands.
Barack Obama – just for the simple fact he took the shot and went all the way to president.
Sister Alice Marie Quinn, who runs St. Vincent Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles.
My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.
These tics do bother me. Could I play a match without them? Yes, without some of them. I don't have to touch my nose or put my hair behind my ears before I serve. That's possible to stop. Not putting the bottles in front of my chair, I could go without that, too. But adjusting my underwear, that I could never get rid of. It's impossible.
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
Sometimes when I'm in the first round or second round, and I'm not playing well, I say, okay, just accept it. Don't get frustrated. Just accept and focus.
Selfishness and no respect for the others.
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
Serena Williams, Chris Hoy, David Haye, Vinnie Jones, Johanna Konta, Sebastian Coe
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