Top 1005 Quotes & Sayings by Brazilian Authors - Page 15

If someone was ever racist towards me, I would go wild.

Both fighters can't win in this sport, so you have to leave it in God's hands. Losing is not the end of the world. Losing is natural; the better-prepared athlete will win.

I played very well in AC Milan, but I had two years of injury problems. I needed to change team and the city for my mentality.

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage.

If I were afraid of anyone, I wouldn't be in this sport.

I like to smile when I am playing because I try to show people that I am enjoying myself, and I think Ronaldinho did the same.

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

Real Madrid are favourites in every championship and in every game, but we will stay humble in order to earn a victory.

We are aware of the responsibility to win, but we have to take responsibility with joy.

I came from a social background in Brazil that is very poor. We didn't have anything.

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three star players.

My mother and father were farmers from very humble means, and when I was three years old they moved from the roca to the city to try to give us a better life. My father took a job at a winery and my mother worked as a seamstress.

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

I know nothing is impossible in life.

When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

I started my surgery career early, at 11 years old when I was hit by the truck.

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

I was in a lecture about concussions and of the 10 symptoms the guy mentioned, I had eight. The symptoms would be, for example, mood swings, getting angry very fast, forgetting some things, having difficulty sleeping.

We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.

Having your father to help you to get back up is good, but you need to get up by yourself and walk alone. Life goes on.

I'm not scared of Jon Jones or Chris Weidman or whoever. I'm here to fight. That's it. It's simple.

I work on stories rather than individual pictures.

Face life's challenges with confidence, dare to pursue your dreams and live to the fullest just as my father did.

I'd like to be remembered for being the one responsible for adapting Brazilian jiu-jitsu for modern MMA. For what I've learned from fence work and some ground positions. Lots of details I developed after years and years studying them, testing what worked on the mat, against the fence, what kept opponents on the ground, control situations.

I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know how to choose my partners but also that choosing excellent partners is a skill you can learn. Obviously, when you spend time with the best, you learn how to choose among them.

I actually prefer playing as a left winger rather than a striker, but I just want to be very clear that I'm willing to play in either position.

Taken as a whole, the work of Marx, at the same times it shows the thesis of the growing pauperization of the non-propertied classes, relativizes it when contemplating the possibility that the class struggles result in distributive effects.

If Neymar doesn't leave PSG, he will never win anything important. Especially the Champions League, which is the most important competition.

I have always liked Chelsea a lot. I watch a lot of the Premier League, and it is a club where you can feel the warmth of the fans.

I had other proposals and I was talking to people but then I decided that staying at Ferrari would give me my best chance of winning the championship.

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

If you're nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.

Often, I'll do a quick workout in my hotel room consisting of exercises for the legs, glutes, abs, and arms with my own body weight. Also, I always have a jump rope, a medicine ball I can inflate, and a band in my suitcase. It's a great kit to have for travel.

I wanted to train jiu-jitsu instead of capoeira because the mat was soft. It was better than training capoeira on the hard floor. I started reading jiu-jitsu magazines, reading about the world champions, and becoming one of them became my goal.

All the things I went through, my losses, those really helped me.

I always have the desire for a new challenge.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

If you regret a mistake, don't just make that mistake again. Look at it and learn from it and grow from it.

Architecture is invention.

Football is more disputed in England than it is in Italy. Every match is a very hard match because the referee doesn't blow his whistle as much as in Italy, and every team plays against each other like it is a final. I enjoy it more in England because you have to think quicker. The pace of the game is faster, so you don't have much time to think.

Every opportunity that presents itself, my main objective is to conquer and be victorious.

My mother gave me a ball, and from then on, there was only football in my life.

I just think about cutting my hair when it's too hot or when I have to go somewhere that I have to wash it and style it. That's when I think about cutting it.

Pele is incomparable.

We need to be both conscious and competent to design products that emulate nature's life cycles, making sure that they endure and are either recycled or absorbed.

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

My parents gave everything. They sacrificed, they went to work. Sometimes they worked 24 hours, so they called friends to help us. They did everything for me to become a football player.

The language of football is universal. You don't need to speak the local lingo in order to be able to communicate with a ball.