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Despite not practicing as a coach of Rafa Nadal, his uncle Toni is still a very relevant character in the world of tennis. This Wednesday at a conference offered by the CEU San Pablo University Foundation, the former world number two technician spoke about the keys to the success of his collaboration with his nephew.

"My commitment to Rafa was to tell him the reality, not what he wanted to hear," said Toni Nadal as a fundamental aspect for the Manacor player to have developed a successful and exemplary career for many years. "Listening and being guided has been basic in Rafa's career. Letting himself be advised is a sign of intelligence. Only fools know everything," he added.

During his lecture, entitled 'Everything can be trained', Toni Nadal has reflected on the demands and opportunities that lead to reaching new challenges. "It is not worth thinking that one cannot, because everything depends on oneself, it depends on the decision one makes in life," said the former Napa Rafa.

Likewise, Toni Nadal wanted to convey to the assistants to the Aula Magna of the university that the ability to overcome entails responsibility and also "obedience", describing the latter in the sense that "knowing how to be guided is a sign of intelligence".

Rafa's "resilience"

For the coach, "the determining talent is the result of the sum of initial talent and work. Be persevering in what we do and not look for excuses because the excuses prevent progress and, therefore, not achieve your goals," he said.

In addition, Toni Nadal has highlighted the main idea of ​​resilience, the ability of the human being to adapt positively to an adverse circumstance. "What has determined Rafa's success on and off the track I think is common to other successful people and can be summed up in one word: resilience," he reiterated.

"When you want to look for excuses you will always find them, but in the long run it is not good to follow that path. I in Rafa tried to promote the capacity of endurance. Something complicated today, where it is important to have a good time," he said. "I was tough with Rafa because I knew I had skills to improve and especially because I have esteem. It would not be hard with anyone who did not appreciate," continued Toni Nadal.

"Rafa once told me: 'Don't worry, I'm not going to lose this match; Federer may win it, but I'm not going to lose it," he said during his conference. "In life one has to be grateful above all. Happiness does not come as much for fun as for work and effort," he said.

Meanwhile, he has sent a message through the social networks of the CEU San Pablo University. "You don't have to wait for things to happen because you don't have to wait for things to be easy. Standing out is always very difficult, being better than others is very difficult, many times you can't get it," he said.

"So what you have to try is to be better than yourself. You have to know that, if you are willing to do what is necessary, things usually go well," he said. "That they are passionate about what they do, that they put illusion and that they are not afraid that things do not go out to the first one, that they try again", has awaited the students present there.

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