Top 581 Quotes & Sayings by Croatian Authors

I never score a lot of points.

There are ups and downs, but whatever happens, you have to trust and believe in yourself.

Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.

The best feeling in the world is a hard workout, a shower, and a protein shake.

A bunch of fans have come up to me and they say, 'Why did we trade you? The Lakers front office did the biggest mistake.' Everyone's like, 'We miss you.'

If you want to be at the top, you need to have the winning mentality and the calmness.

In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.

Inter is a big step in my career. They're a big club and I'll do my best to perform well here.

I love football. A lot. It's never a moment to say that I'm bored. There is a lot of repetition in football, in training and travel, but I still love it.

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.

This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis.

Individual awards are important, but I am not obsessed with them.

It's an honour, of course, to play against the biggest players in the world.

In England, everyone is really physically strong. They can play three games, and then they are ready to play the fourth. If you are a Spanish team, and you give away a corner against an English team, then you have to be ready.

There are a lot of good players all over the world.

Nobody is accustomed to play in front of an empty stadium.

Money-wise, I was probably the best player in Europe. It was safe where I was in Italy. But I wanted to play in the NBA to see if I could.

I feel relief after the transfer window is closed. I got tired of reading and listening every day about me leaving or staying at Liverpool. Everyone wrote 'Dejan is here, Dejan is there,' and they knew nothing!

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

I want to get stronger. I want to get slimmer. I'm already slimmer, but I want to get some muscles so I can fight all these guys in the post.

It is a much bigger thing to have a world championship with Chicago than this one in Italy.

At Bayern, you always go into a season with the goal to win titles.

Every year it is more difficult to get into the top four.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

The hunger doesn't diminish when you win something. If you have the chance to win the European and Spanish Super Cups and the Club World Cup, that makes you want to win even more.

We're all different, and we have to accept and tolerate each other's characteristics.

I had better offers financially but from the first day I said I want to come to Liverpool.

Fitness gives you confidence, and if you're fit, you don't have to wonder whether you'll last the 90 minutes.

I just go home or on vacation, or together because Croatia is nice.

Everything was good when I was in Japan, and then, unfortunately, the injuries started.

When I sit on the bench, I'm dying.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

If someone told me a couple years ago, 'You're going to be deep into show jumping with horses,' I would be like, I didn't even know that's an Olympic sport.

I had proposals from England, but I believe they would have had to adapt to my style.

Those who know me know I'm always a fighter.

The only thing I can do is work hard and hope that they're gonna call my name.

I am the last person to start celebrating.

Everything is possible when you believe and you work hard.

I am aware that I have come to the end of my martial times, but training with pain I want no longer. My body is battered by countless trainings. I collected nine operations; the body has become prone to injury.

I need to raise my kids. It takes a lot of time and a lot of energy to raise kids and make men of them these days. I don't want them to be lazy and just spend their father's money.

I always said that I would like to finish my career in Madrid if it's possible.

Zlatan is one of the best strikers in the modern generation.

You never know when people with sick minds can destroy your life. It doesn't matter how well life is going on for you that moment. If that can't happen in the middle of New York City, it can happen anywhere else. If the terrorists can hit the Pentagon or the White House I don't see where it's safe.

Chicago is one of the greatest places when it comes to sports. It kind of reminds me of my hometown in Split. It doesn't matter how bad the soccer team is, everybody worships the soccer, the players and the games.

I live in the part of Bosnia-Herzegovina where we are the only Croatians, and we are the proudest in the world.

Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.

For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.

Don't wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.

There were games I would score five and games I would score 30, and sometimes the five points were way more important than the 30.

Maybe two or three years will be enough for me to grow into a good NBA player.

When you go 18 games unbeaten people will say 'wow he's really good' but when you make mistakes they will point the finger at the back four.

Madrid is a big and beautiful city with great parks where I like to walk. There are a lot of squares and museums, historic monuments. But I'm more a home guy; I feel most comfortable there with my wife and kids. We play, watch cartoons, like all families do.

Fight for your dreams and success. This is what has always guided me.

If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.