Top 637 Quotes & Sayings by Cuban Authors - Page 3

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

I am a writer of fragments.

I love beating the men. When I beat 'em in the ratings, when I beat 'em in the salary, I always say, 'One more for the girls.'

I've never enjoyed my running more. I also do 200 sit-ups a day, 60 push-ups, and a lot of stretching. I've had some back issues. I think the stretching helps with that.

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

I have an analytical mind.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete - incredible. Just legendary.

When we get off the line in skating we kind of look like little ducks running.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.

In baseball, I had this lower body but nothing in the upper body. I had to counteract years of training and work the upper body.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in my head many times. I think someday I will see it, when things are different there, but I've come to feel like I really am a Miami girl.

I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn't know what to do, so I tried stand-up.

I don't mind playing someone's girlfriend or wife if I have something to say, if I bring something to the picture, if I can be strong and powerful and say smart things. If not, then it's just boring.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed.

My parents were more surprised that I wanted to go away for school than anything. They didn't really understand the benefits.

I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

When you are not in agreement with someone, we Latin people are loud when we argue.

I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.

I'm Cuban, so I know for a fact that we are the largest minority group in this country.

There's always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it's good. It's good. It's been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great.

Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.

A lot of my friends who are white are like, 'Dude, I can't get an audition; it's all Hispanic and black.' It's about time.

I believe in God. I got down on my knees and I said, 'I get it. If this isn't for me, then it isn't for me.' And then a week later, I started working. I worked on 'The Following,' I worked on 'Elementary,' I worked on a pilot and then I got 'Orange.' So literally from that moment of deep surrender, that's when you're blessed.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

When you're so close to winning and you have to stand on the podium and listen to someone else's anthem, it leaves just a little bit of that bittersweet feeling.

I'm the biggest Blackhawks fan ever. I've been going to games since I was 6 years old.

I like vaporous clothing with flowers and colors.

Rock n' roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

It's hard to explain to my parents what's going on. You can't compare Hollywood with Cuba. I didn't even know I could dream this.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

I'm just so honored I got the chance to represent our country. I was always willing to put in the work, the sacrifice, to do so.

My family taught me something: I don't ask. What's yours, you do not ask for.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

The people who critique me are the people who don't know about the sport. They don't really know about the rules of MMA. They aren't a real fan or follower of the sport, or they're just people who like to talk.

America was the place that said, 'It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter what your last name is, it doesn't matter if you drink cortaditos, or lattes, or coffee with milk. Here, if you work hard, anything is possible.'

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

I have respect for everybody. Dan Henderson is a legend for the sport. GSP, I have good respect for you, too.

TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally.

I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born in Cuba - and we didn't yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

In speed skating, we want to have the strongest, most powerful lower half of the body and don't want to have any weight on top.

I have a great passion for boxing. I have family members who are boxers.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

I'm a girl that will suffer for fashion.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.