Nadal to his students: “I have learned to always try to get up”

The Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal has delivered this Wednesday a speech before the 39 students who have completed their studies at his academy in Manacor (Mallorca) urging them to overcome the obstacles that they will encounter in the future: “If I have learned something these years, it is to try always get up, “said the winner of 20 Grand Slams titles.

“In the future we will be following in your footsteps and rejoicing in all your professional and personal successes, which I am sure there will be many,” Nadal said at a graduation ceremony in which Ona Carbonell, captain of the Spanish synchronized swimming team, also participated. “But I have to tell you that not everything will be joys along the way,” the Balearic tennis player warned them.

“You will have bad moments, periods of doubts and many obstacles that will come between you and your goals. And it will be those painful moments that will help you grow as students, as tennis players, as professionals and above all, as people,” he said. Nadal insisted on highlighting the ability to overcome adversity: “Sometimes you will achieve what you are looking for in a short space of time and sometimes it will take longer to achieve it. But if you give one hundred percent, you will never be able to blame yourself for anything. You know that I do not usually do it. to give a lot of advice, but if I have learned something over the years, it is to always try to get up “.

“To the previous promotions I have transmitted a message that today I also repeat because for me it is something fundamental: Always surround yourself with good people who help you grow and stay away from those harmful people who do not contribute anything to you,” he added. “If you support yourself in your family, in positive friendships and in good mentors, everything will be easier for you. Only then can you also be a reference in the future and help the people who will come across you throughout life” , The 39 students who have finished their school years, exposed the considered best Spanish athlete in history.They graduated from the Rafa Nadal International School, the American international school located in the facilities of the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar.