Top 581 Quotes & Sayings by Croatian Authors - Page 3

I underestimated the difference of fighting in a cage.

I'm a fighter like Ibrahimovic, my idol.

We switched everything in G League so I had a lot of time to work on my switching.

We need to always stay hungry. When we lose the ball, get it back quickly.

Coming here, I never thought about being like what I was supposed to be in Europe, the No. 1 guy and building the whole team around you. Coming here, I was relaxed about that because I knew there was going to be Michael, Scottie, Horace and I could learn from them.

People in Real ask me about Mateo Kovacic all the time. He is a phenomenal talent and will play in some of the biggest clubs. Inter is a big club, no doubt, but Kovacic will play in even bigger.

I'm not old. I'm 37, but I can do things that fighters 10 years younger cannot. I will prove that, or I will die trying.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

I was hoping to workout with Kareem on a daily basis. After that first workout, I never got a chance.

My challenge is to win titles and trophies with Real Madrid.

When you meet Croatians somewhere abroad that's great. It feels like you are best friends.

When you're together, you can do anything, be it in sports or in society.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast.

I'm not angry or anything at Sonnen, but I will say one thing - I hope nobody gets offended; I don't wanna sound disgusting, and I am certainly not fan of any anthropologic theories - but you can see on that guy's face that he is limited and stupid, and his IQ is not higher than the size of the shoes he's wearing.

I don't need players who won't track back, and I'm certainly not keen on specialists.

In football, you never say never.

All of the people I have lost against, I always want to fight again.

I hope that my first appearance at a World Cup will be marked with a positive outcome.

We want to connect all these musical worlds together. We just improvise; we know straight away if its going to work or not. They're not covers - I hate the word cover. We do a transcription: mix it up, put our own spin on it. I think people will be surprised how powerful our show is.

I try to imagine what it will be like to play for the Bulls. I don't think I will be able to feel it before I step on the court at Chicago Stadium.

I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.

Fear doesn't exist in football, especially for Real Madrid.

Attacking is the tough part in football; defending is relatively easy.

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

Here you get to play one on one more, individual basketball. I think that fits me better than in Europe. You have harder, different double teams and everybody helps, but in the NBA they let you play one on one, so I think that will fit me better.

A part of me feels very Swiss: I follow Swiss sports - curling, for example - and I support Swiss teams. I love Roger Federer.

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

Now, we are still learning how to approach girls, you know, learning what to say, etc., because the practice we've had was with our other girl, the cello. If you noticed, it has the shape of a female.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

Every player at Bayern Munich wants to play and should play - they all have good reasons.

I know how the game works. If I field one, then the other complains. It's always the same.

I can pass the ball pretty well.

The biggest problem is my back.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

If research can help us discover cures for diseases, it surely can improve a football team. Whether it's data analysis or biomechanics, it can give you an edge - and I'd be a fool if I didn't want that edge.

Pirlo and Tevez are extraordinary players and any squad would miss them.

We need to be confident, but do not look back; look at what's coming.

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

I love playing against England.

I am living a great life.

I really think me and my family live humbly. I've secured my life, and I won't have to open the newspaper and be looking for work.

My agent called me when we were talking before I came to the States. He told me we are going to select only three or four teams who are most interested, who are calling the most, asking for you, who are watching me the most in Europe and scouting me.

When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what's in your way.

When a club like Bayern call, you cannot say no.

Going 33 games unbeaten is no coincidence.

Guardiola disappointed me - he did not treat me with respect. He did not let me become the top scorer in the Bundesliga. For me things were twice as good when Jupp Heynckes was in charge.

I never expected that I would be somebody. I just started playing and when I was 12, 13, thought: 'Wow, I'm playing good.' Then Dinamo Zagreb were speaking about signing me, I thought: 'Hmm, maybe I can achieve something.'

Even though I didn't do as well in the UFC as the rest of my career, I feel like I did everything that I could to have an overall successful career.

Sevilla are so important in my life: I met my wife there, our daughter was born there, we have a home there, and we'll go back.

I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.

I've made some investments during my career that I'm happy with, so my life, talking financially, is definitely OK.

Juventus have always had exceptional players. I've played against them and against Italy many times. They're a tough team with great quality.

I usually train twice a day, and Thursdays and Sundays are supposed to be my days off. But even on those days, I'm training at least once. I have to do at least one session each day to be happy.

I forced myself to watch Spanish TV and listen to Spanish radio all the time. I think I'm lucky because, for whatever reason, people from the Balkans seem to have a talent for learning languages.

My thing is to play as well as I can possibly can.

At Bayern it was fantastic. It's a fantastic club.

Talking about a fight with Randy Couture is a jinx for me.

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.