Top 813 Quotes & Sayings by Portuguese Authors - Page 3

Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

I've always loved English and loved English music and TV shows.

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

To be persistent and to have courage is important to get through difficult times and to achieve what you want to achieve.

I don't think of anything else, only playing football.

It is good to have aspirations, but we have to be real.

What sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.

I do not like to talk about luck.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

I want to play the Champions League with Marseille, but I want to know how much we are economically dependent on our project.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Leading is every day in the training ground, every game and everyone is doing their job to lead the team in the way they think is best.

Usually, I don't revisit a scene once shot. However, in 'Gentleman,' every morning on the sets, I had to revisit the last four scenes and then shoot for the next set of scenes.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because they know they can't survive if they don't have a hit. Where in the past, we were writing a song like 'More Than Words' on a porch, not really believing it was gonna be a hit.

When I am not playing or training, I watch football all the time.

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

When I was younger, I saw Moutinho playing, and he was very good.

With good content, a solid director can make a film without a superstar.

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that - I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

Racing runs in the blood of my family and my dream was to do the Dakar one day.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

The intensity in the Premier League is a bit higher than most of the other leagues.

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

I always prefer the weather to be cooler.

If you try to stop all these teams and players celebrating with the fans, some of them taking their shirts off, it is part of the game and something you cannot stop. It is something important, even if sometimes you get fined.

I learned to be more flexible when I went from Chelsea to Tottenham. I always thought more in the long run without thinking in the short term.

I'm not the healthiest eater; I'll admit that. I love junk food.

Usually I don't comment on comments of others.

I used to play cricket every day till Class X but lost touch with it ever since.

The British people in the north are very friendly and treat me well on the streets. They have great respect and don't bother me.

It makes you observe small details; even if it's just a kid playing with his dad, if you watch them closely, you can use that in your work. It helps you fully understand people better.

It is important and a good sign when somebody compares you with a good coach.

There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.

For me at 16 and 17 years old, I wasn't even playing for the academy teams. I hardly played in the starting XI for the Under 19s.

I'm a coach who likes to have the ball, but what I really think is, 'How can you be in charge of the game?' I think, but maybe I am the only one, that the defensive process can take care of the game. Why is that? Because teams wait to defend. If you create something where you go to defend, to steal the ball where you want, it's different.

I need to improve every day.

My ultimate ambition is to win the Premier League.

I have to justify my job every day.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

I will be captain for my teammates and be captain of Manchester United is an important achievement for me but I think everyone is the captain, everyone needs to help and be a leader in their own way, leadership is different in every player.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.

If I changed the mindset of some players or my mindset helped some players to be better - maybe. But I don't think it was me changing anything for the club because playing for Manchester United means playing with the pressure, playing with the responsibility.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

Since the shock of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's death, I have been reflecting on what made him so special. To my mind, it is simply this: Kofi Annan was both one of a kind and one of us.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Of course if I score I'm happy this is for sure.

I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

We try to give everything in all the games, but we know it's not always possible.

Golf is a good time, valued time.