Jos neki delovi iz knjige
… while competing at the Les Petits As in France!
RAFA, P.77: I won that year, and in my first taste of what was to come, girls my age or older started coming up to me to ask for my autograph. My parents, seeing this, were amused but also slightly alarmed. So my father got Maribel, who was nine, to join the queue of girls and, when she reached me, to ask me in the most fawning, sickly sweet way, “Mr Nadal, please can I have your autograph?”
Rafa won the Spanish under-14s National Championships when he was 12.
RAFA, P.75: In the very first round of the tournament I fell and broke the little finger of my left hand. But I refused to pull out or, under Toni’s vigilant eye, to complain… I had to grip the racquet with four fingers, the broken one dangling, limp and lifeless… I played through the pain to the point that I almost forgot about it…. [after I’d won the last point] The pain hit me so hard I couldn’t even lift up the cup. Another boy had to help me hold it up for the commemorative photograph.
, gladijator
