Top 813 Quotes & Sayings by Portuguese Authors - Page 2

Football hasn't got better, it has just evolved, from the ball to the boots to the shirts to the training methods - everything around them.

I have always loved cricket since childhood.

I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

I changed Portugal to France and France to England.

I just try to love my body, to embrace who I am and really be the best version of myself. You have to know how much you're worth.

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.

Because of Cristiano, my dream team in England was United.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

To me, I don't have any problems. I don't have economic problems. I have an independent life.

I did everything, except win a World Cup.

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

My guilty pleasure is definitely candy! Skittles are my favourite.

I am not the clone of anyone.

I love simple, elegant clothing with a hint of sexy, and that, for me, is so hard to find. I usually always end up finding Australian brands, and Kookai is an example of that.

We can't think after every win that we're playing as we want just because we won a match.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

The worst is when you read things on the Internet blogs, because people don't hold back. Sometimes you read wonderful things, but sometimes it's really awful stuff. Like on the Fashion Spot, for example, people always comment on you. They forget that we might read that stuff.

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

In Porto, when we were preparing, the players guessed the team that was going to play.

Ronaldo is a leader. A complete player. Good in the air, good with his feet.

I think I just want to have a career I can be proud of, whenever it finishes.

Everything I do lands in the newspapers.

Ronaldo has nothing to prove to anyone, he has proved his talent by being the top scorer in England. He has proved it by winning the Premier League, by winning the Champions League, with Manchester United.

It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country level, especially inside countries. And there are people that were left behind - people, sectors, regions - that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of the world.

I want to discover Japanese culture and Japanese football.

I think 1GOAL is so important. I'm proud that we could make education for all the legacy of Africa's first World Cup.

India is a country that has no direct interests in some areas of global conflict. It has very good relations with countries in conflict or countries facing difficult security situations, and I believe Indian diplomacy is very well received. India is a bridge-builder, an honest broker, and a messenger of peace.

Porto is my team since I was a young boy. I was in the stands for all the matches. I was too young to go to the Champions League final in 2004, but I celebrated afterwards. I watch all their games when I can. At some point in my career, I want to go back.

Our ambition is to win every game regardless of the opponent.

My mother worked at home, making clothes, trying to make some money.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

If I score, the better. But if everyone could choose, they would choose to win and not to score.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that's what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

I love Hull as a club, the people there are amazing, at Watford and now Everton. I have big respect for all of them.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

It doesn't matter how you score, when the ball touches the net it's a goal.

To be at Man City, to play alongside some of the best players, it is great. It was a dream that became true for me.

The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals and it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you're playing ugly football, you have to win.

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

I took a big risk to come to Hull, I have to be honest. But I loved it there, I really did. Great club and great people.

I can play either in the centre or wide. I can do whatever the manager thinks is best for the team.

Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.

Sometimes we need to take some time to reflect. Sometimes we need to do something different. Sometimes we need to do something not because others are doing it so we want to do the same, but because it is different.

I tried to go to university, and I stayed there for one year, but I didn't do much there because I already had a contract with Benfica.

When we played Real Madrid and won 5-3 it was soaking wet and the ball ended up weighing a kilo. It didn't have a brand. Consider the boots; there was no personalised footwear. Back then we made money, but we played for the love, it was all heart.

Becoming a father is incredible. There is no explanation for the feeling.

I was a huge Kamal Haasan fan, but not really a die-hard wackadoo.

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.

Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.

Of course I want to get even better. I will work as hard as I can to be able to help the team even more.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

I'm sure if I continue to do my work maybe good things will come in the future but for me the most important thing is always the next day, the next training and the next match.