Rafa Nadal, VF Person of the Year. © Bruce Webber

The player collects the award Monday at Vanity Fair Person of the Year

- Speaking for the first time after announcing that he would not continue the season

- Read the interview in the magazine , on sale from September 17

- Letter from the Editor: The factor Nadal

It is the first interview since announcing that a knee injury prevented him from continuing the season. Rafa Nadal , Vanity Fair Person of the Year, speaks in Mallorca success, money, family and how to keep your relationship safe from foreign curiosity.
 
"Success is not the victory, but everything you've fought to win. Certainty that you have done everything to get what you wanted"
 
On his relationship with Xisca Perello: "I understand that discretion is the best for me and for her. Otherwise, everything becomes a show unnecessary and uncomfortable."
"I'm far from knowing how much money I have.'s Not something I worry directly. Responsible my father."
"I have too many quirks. Only I bought one car in my life, after winning the Wimbledon final".
"I do not know how long I will continue playing tennis, in five years I will have already given 31 and I started at 16 ... who knows?"
"Being in town makes family relations are closer. Live with my parents and my sister and I visit my uncles daily. I've Been happy with this understanding of the family."
 
Furthermore:
- Letter from the Editor: The factor Nadal
- PROUST: Rafa Nadal responses
- INTERVIEW: "I'm happy playing tennis.'m happy without tennis"
- Album: The hottest photos of Nadal and Refaeli
- FEATURE: Rafa and his women
- PHOTOS: Nadal, body of Armani
- FEATURE: The Zen Warrior