Rafael Nadal has an uncommon quality: humility, says coach Carlos Moya
In an interview to El Confidencial Carlos Moya was asked what he teached Rafael Nadal since when they started working together in December 2016. Moya said: "I think it's not about teaching. You cannot teach anything to somebody who won 17 Majors! It's about evolving and adding little things, after speaking with the entire team. When you come from outside you have a lot of strength and fresh things."
Moya was also asked to tell what's talent for him: "It's difficult to exactly describe the talent. Sometimes you misundestand it with estetics, easiness. Rafa has a lot of easiness to do things very well, but the talent is not something written in tennis. It's complicated, but Rafa has a lot of talent. Rafa has something that you can only see in the biggest competitors: the humility to recognize that he has to evolve if he wants to keep winning, knowing how to make an effort when is no longer 20 years old. Achieving all this is a part of the way you want to be. This is a very big talent: being humble to see these things when you are winning, while you are growing. If you want to keep winning, that's the key. You have to stay with feet on the ground. It's something that belongs to all the big players. Being able to keep the motivation is one of the most complicated things you have in sports. It's very difficult but that's what you have to do."
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2UDvcdH
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