Top 1005 Quotes & Sayings by Brazilian Authors

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

I do not play football to win the Ballon d'Or. I play football to be happy, because I love it and want to play football.

I don't believe that politics has to be part of the sporting world.

I will respect anyone who thinks differently, but I know what I have in my heart and only God can judge me. If everybody took care of their own lives only we would have less prejudice in this world.

A true champion is a true champion. They go fight and win or lose, give it their all.

Loyalty and honesty, those are important.

I smile because I am a happy guy.

I am happy to start from zero, to create, to restart.

Overeem is really smart when he's fighting, had the patience to wait for the right moment.

I want to be remembered as a guy who goes out and represents the art of jiu-jitsu.

Brazil has people in some places with so difficult situations. They prefer to smile than cry because they love life. They love to be happy. That's Brazilian style.

That was my biggest dream, to one day become champion in MMA and boxing. That is my biggest dream.

Football demands patience. Keep working and you will be rewarded.

I am a beloved athlete all over the world.

I spoke with Zidane and he insisted that Casemiro is the player who gives Real Madrid balance. I decided to trust him and make him a starter.

We have to learn that not everyone deserves our tears. You have to do the right thing even if someone mocks you.

Gracie Jiu Jitsu is the most complete art of self defense there is out there. You don't have to be strong. You don't have to be fast.

Remember to always smile.

I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

I have always done everything to defend my goal.

Khabib is very tough, has phenomenal wrestling and sambo, but he has a huge deficiency on the feet so I can catch him. Nothing is impossible.

Chelsea is one of the best clubs in the world, so I don't see why I would think of leaving.

God gave me the power. God showed me the way. He helps me and gives me support and it's my job to get that message out.

You can get glory days, bad days but the most important thing is to just keep your head down and keep working because at the end of it all if you work hard everything is going to be fine.

You have to be strong and calm to overcome difficult moments.

I'm the champ for a reason.

I was in a coma for a long time and in and out of the hospital for a year. For sure, when I'm in a fight and having a hard time, I think back to that time because that was the worst. No matter how bad things are, my attitude is that it's nothing compared to what happened then. Thank God I survived it.

I'm really happy to be working with Jose Mourinho. He's a great person and he's always keen to communicate with the squad and help people to be communicative regarding what they're to do on the pitch.

I have a good relationship with the UFC.

When you hear the Champions League anthem, it gives you goosebumps.

I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.

The family is the foundation of everything.

Don't put wings on me; I am no angel.

I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good.

I'm just thankful for my parents blessing me with good genes, I guess.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

I have learned that you need to have patience, perseverance, and faith in people to reach your goals.

I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came.

With persistence, dedication, and especially with the hand of God, I came to be recognized as the best player in the world, world champion, among many other important titles in the history of football.

I do want to live my life in the right way and live my life close to God.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

I've always been shy; it's just that I transform on the pitch. I'm a different person. Off the pitch, I'm another person. That's how it has to be.

You define the success of a player by his loyalty or his titles. Or both.

I got my green card and everything through my work, even before marriage or anything like that, so you really have to follow the rules and do everything the right way to be able to accomplish that, so it was big... I had my green card for so long.

I'm a normal person, and I like living this way - and always with a smile in my face.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

When I had long hair, I used to tie it back, so the guys would say I would look like the 'Gypsy.' I used to hate that, but the less you like a nickname, the more it sticks.

Football gives us moments we can't imagine.

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.

You cannot compare Pep to any Brazilian coach. If you put all Brazilian coaches together, you would get Pep. One has motivational skills, another is tactically strong. But Pep has it all.

I wanted to show everyone that I can be... romantic one day. I can be sexy the other day. I can be crazy. I can be serious. I can be boss. I can be feminist, and I still don't lose my way to be, you know?

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Being in midfield, in general, you don't have a lot of time to think, and in the Premier League, that's even less of the case. You just don't have time to think.

Many players enter the pitch just to change shirts, but I don't.

Brazil has no parties, only acronyms.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.