Does Rafael Nadal Consider Himself the Greatest Tennis Player of All Time? | Amanpour and Company

And there's the cup, I mean there we have it, the great trophy. 14 times, 22 grand slams, a whole load of other, you know, US Open, Australian Open, two Olympic gold medals. Are you ready to declare, or at least have people say, that you are now the greatest of all time? You wouldn't agree when I asked you last time. I honestly don't think much about that and from the bottom of my heart I really don't care that much, you know. I mean, I think it doesn't matter, you know, I think we achieved our dreams, I achieved my dream and I enjoy what I am doing. Yeah, I understand the question and I know the press and people is always caring a lot about this stuff, but in some way I know I am in an important part of the history of the sport, you know, and that makes me feel proud, happy and at the end it doesn't matter much. When you came off the court yesterday, in your on-court speech, you said, I never thought that at 36 years old and with all these injuries that I would be in this position and we see your, you know, your fingers bandaged, like Muhammad Ali after he takes off his boxing gloves, we see your feet and you're limping today. It is an amazing achievement because you yourself said and you turned to your team saying, I didn't think I would be here. What then, what made you achieve this? Well, yeah, it's unexpected. Last couple of years have been very difficult. After the pandemic something happened in my foot and I am not able to manage the pain to play often and even practice. And in the past I have a lot of things, you know, starting from the foot for the first time in 2005, then of course the knees have been a big issue for me for such a long time. Then a couple of times I broke my wrist. I don't know, but the only thing that I can say is going through all these probably challenges, I always hold the passion for keep going and I always hold the love for the game and I always wanted to keep going. And that's probably why I am in the position that I am today. you