GOAT = meaningless title in my very exalted opinion! Is it to be measured purely by number of titles? Or by "best" player? Or by the "most successful" player? I mean Borg never won anything like the number of titles Fed, Rafa et al have, but plenty of people wd consider him the GOAT.
I too like the Labrador analogy :). There must be something in all this talk about Rafa wanting to leave Toni, I've heard variations on the theme in a few places. When you think about it, what sort of life has Rafa had really? Yes, he's wealthy and world famous, but at what cost? He didn't have any sort of a childhood, or at least not the sort I'd want for any of my dc. He's not had any time to himself. He's had to grow up centre stage with his every move being either criticised or revered. He's had to subsume any personal wishes/ambitions/desires.
I know he presumably agreed to go along with it all, but did he really understand what he was letting himself in for when, as a young boy, he turned his life over to Toni? If I'm honest, out of all the top players, he's the only one I feel really sorry for as he just seems to have been swept along. I think maybe now he's reached some sort of mental maturity where he's realising he can't go on this way, and there needs to be more to his life. I've read a couple of interesting articles about his development and relationship with Toni in the last couple of weeks - I'll try and find them and link tomorrow.
That is, I'll link if I have time - Im extremely busy with my knitting don't you know? 
. Plus, people from my past seem to be coming out of the woodwork at a rate of knots. First my old school friend and now the stunner that everyone on Dh's course at uni wanted to get friendly with (except dh of course according to him :)) This is my OP from my thread in Chat:
*Dh had a friend at uni who was supposedly brainy, blonde, beautiful, sporty, blah blah blah. Unfortunately, I discovered a lot of what he told me about her was true when she came to our wedding. She was also very very nice. The last time we saw her was at her wedding to a ridiculously rich, handsome and very charming Italian 19 years ago.
They went off to live somewhere exotic but are back living in London now. She contacted Dh earlier today and we're meeting them for coffee in London on Friday morning. Think this meeting might be a sort of toe-in-the-water experiment to see if there's still enough in common to revive a relationship.
I'm actually really looking forward to seeing them, and they were very nice nineteen years ago! But but but I know she will be drop dead glam and bang on trend etc. I am neither of those things*