Top 880 Quotes & Sayings by Argentinian Authors - Page 13

When the opposition team sense that there is fear, they take advantage without mercy.

I am never going to be manager of Barcelona or Arsenal because I am so identified with Tottenham and Espanyol.

Being on set for me is my happiest time.

'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

The kudos and hierarchy of playing in the Premier League for a footballer is huge.

I am just one of many who have played their part in Argentina's football history.

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.

I don't have regrets about leaving Real Madrid.

You go around the world, and you say, 'I'm the top scorer for the Argentina national team.' I liked that.

I didn't go to film school. I didn't graduate college with an acting degree or a theater degree. I didn't have the traditional route of training.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

I have no regrets about leaving Barcelona.

It's difficult to compete if you are not consistent.

America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.

I have always tried to live football from a survivalist perspective.

I like to play as a striker.

There are no words to describe Messi; he always surprises you.

I thought: 'I'm going to go to college. I'm going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.'

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.

The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.

To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of American soap operas. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens.

I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.

A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

I always experience each game the same way, but the Clasico has something extra because you can't play one every day.

Mauricio always tries to give you the opportunity to keep improving. I think that's his main quality, that he always wants you to be the best, and I think that affects a lot of players.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

Despite being the greatest, Messi is an ordinary guy. He speaks like a normal guy, he acts like a normal guy. As a normal person, he has family, day-to-day problems in his life, friends and family, the usual.

I said to my mum when I turned 18 and moved into my first flat in Enfield, 'I don't want to come back to my country with nothing. I want to make a career here.' I did not want to let them down.

I know I am coming to a big club with a very good goalkeeper. City already have a great goalkeeper in Joe Hart, but I will try and compete for the No. 1 spot.

All of us know that Messi cannot win alone, except for the fanatics or the mental patients who put in doubt Messi's talents, saying that he is a bottler, that he feels nothing for Argentina, that he doesn't sing the anthem, that he goes to the bathroom 50 times before a game. Those are things that are said to make an impression.

It's very special to be the coach of the best player in the world.

I grew up watching the great Milan teams with the Dutch players.

I grew without having a thing about the Ballon d'Or. When I was young, Ballon d'Or was also given to the European players. I didn't grow with this ambition. I think it's a personal trophy and football is a team game.

You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It's a story about the end of childhood.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

I used to play up front so I always had the ability to play with the ball, even though I am 6ft 4in.

I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

I never played in Spain. To play for Real Madrid or Barcelona would be great.

I went to Italy as a 21-year-old when I could easily have stayed in Argentina, playing for the biggest club in the land, River Plate, and having a nice, comfortable life.

Pep Guardiola is like going to university. I spent a year with him at City, learning something new every day. On the playing field, watching videos or at any time, when he approaches you and explains things to you. He has no problem teaching someone at 34 years old, as I was, like someone who is 18. He is a great teacher.

It is our desire to win the World Cup again but it is going to be difficult and we mustn't forget that in the history of football, Argentina has only won the World Cup twice. That shows how difficult it will be to win it.

In our neighborhood we used to hold major football sessions that went on until it got dark, with everyone playing against each other.

Every time Maradona speaks it makes life difficult for everyone and there are those of us who don't agree with that, not when he talks about football, but rather about people.

My relationship with the national squad is a separate thing; I've always been lucky in that, for Argentina, I've always performed well, independently of what's been going on at any club.

Argentina is a bit tough to people. You don't embrace genre film in general. They are more like, in the film community, a bit snobby.

There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

In a dream world, it is to be able to continue picking and choosing projects that stand out to me and challenge me. Working with directors I look up to and alongside talented actors that push me to be better.