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00:00 Roger, Rafa, Novak have the main qualities.
00:03 But Novak wants to dominate.
00:06 He wants to be better.
00:07 He wants it more.
00:09 And that's where he's better than two others.
00:11 I think I said that he will probably be the record holder
00:18 of number of Grand Slams when he had 12 or 13.
00:21 I thought so for several reasons.
00:22 First of all, he was dominant already.
00:25 I felt that at that time,
00:26 he was better than Roger and Rafa.
00:30 Of course, Rafa was always better on clay,
00:32 but on all the other surfaces, he was superior.
00:36 Of course, he lost many matches against them,
00:38 but generally speaking, I felt he was winning more
00:41 and able to win more and constantly.
00:44 Also, he was still young,
00:45 and I knew that his body was in perfect shape
00:49 and ready to last much more than Rafa, for example,
00:53 who had so many injuries
00:54 and has a game that is painful for the body.
00:58 Novak's game is not painful for the body.
01:00 He has an incredible diet, training.
01:03 He's just, for me, the perfect athlete for tennis.
01:06 So that was the reason.
01:07 And third, I would say his mindset.
01:10 He's really someone who wants to dominate.
01:12 He's a concurrent and he's a dominator.
01:14 That's what he wants.
01:15 And also, he loves to prove people wrong.
01:19 And the fact that there were so many fans
01:21 for the two others and less for him,
01:23 that he was not as liked as the two others,
01:25 I felt that it created in him the will
01:27 to make a revenge one way or another.
01:29 And the best answer to that is to be undoubtedly better
01:33 than them in terms of achievement.
01:35 I think this combination of the three elements is key
01:37 and has been key in all his achievements
01:40 since he started to play tennis.
01:41 All three, Roger, Rafa, Novak, have the main qualities,
01:46 but some are better than others at certain things.
01:50 All three love tennis.
01:51 Maybe, probably, Roger is the one who loves tennis the most.
01:55 He's a player.
01:56 He loves tennis.
01:57 He's breathing tennis, he's living tennis all his career.
02:01 And that's why he was playing that type of tennis.
02:03 Rafa loves fights.
02:04 He loves to be on the court.
02:05 He loves to suffer.
02:06 He loves to fight from the first point to the last one
02:09 and give.
02:10 This is where he excels
02:11 and this is where he feels the more alive.
02:15 Novak wants to dominate.
02:17 He wants to be better.
02:18 And that's where he's better than two others.
02:19 He has the willingness to be better than anyone,
02:23 to dominate, to be the best.
02:25 It has been a driver for him all his career.
02:27 And I think he's superior to the two others
02:29 in that special area.
02:31 He wants it more.
02:32 It's more important to him.
02:34 He's prepared to do more.
02:36 He's prepared to have the diet,
02:38 the perfect diet every day in his life.
02:40 He's prepared to sacrifice everything to be the best.
02:44 The two others, yes, but he wants to be the best.
02:46 He wants to dominate.
02:47 He wants to be on top of the world.
02:48 That's, for him, that was his main driver,
02:52 his main motivation.
02:53 Roger wanted to play tennis and win
02:55 because he loves to play tennis
02:56 and he's a great competitor.
02:57 And Rapha wants to be on that court
02:59 and fight and suffer and end up winning.
03:02 It's more general for Novak.
03:04 He wants to be the one on top of the world,
03:06 on top of everyone.
03:07 He wants to be the best.
03:08 That's what drove him.
03:09 The fact that he's now obviously the best with 24 titles
03:13 will not change it because first, he has competitors.
03:17 He has Carlos who's pushing him a lot,
03:19 Daniel who's pushing him a lot,
03:21 and maybe two more others that are gonna push him a lot.
03:23 And he still wants to be on top of the world.
03:25 It's not something that he can accept to lose,
03:28 so he's gonna fight for that.
03:30 And second, he wants to make history.
03:32 He wants to be the best, undoubtedly, of all times.
03:34 And if he can make a record that will stay forever,
03:37 that will never, ever be beaten in history,
03:40 it's enough to give him the utmost motivation.
03:43 And he has it.
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