Top 581 Quotes & Sayings by Croatian Authors - Page 4

It feels great to have the chance to play with the Chicago Bulls.

We just must make sure we give everything we can to become champions.

I think everybody respects Real Madrid; nobody wants to play against us.

Michael may be the biggest player in the N.B.A., but he's not the N.B.A.

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.

We are Madrid, and we want to define our own philosophy. We don't want to be compared to anyone.

I'm an athlete and a professional, I like challenges and this is my driving force.

I never said I am the best.

I would say the best Croatian player in 2014 was Ivan Rakitic, leading Sevilla to Europa League glory and earning a big transfer to Barcelona.

It is normal for a player to dream about playing for a bigger club.

I had to change my game completely. I was what Scottie was. What he was doing here I was doing in Europe.

I always have confidence in myself even though everyone doubted me.

I don't know one player who doesn't make a mistake, especially a defender and especially how we play at Liverpool.

It was even hard to imagine I was going to play in the NBA, because so many guys playing in Europe are not even getting to the Euroleague and everything. But everybody wants to play in the NBA. So when draft night came, it was a dream come true.

When you're not playing you're not feeling good because this is what I'm doing my whole life. Now when I'm finally in the rotation, everything else feels much better. Life is much better.

I have twenty years of training like a spartan behind me. It has caught up with me. My body is broken down. I've been worn out.

In Madrid, the demand is maximum, and you have to always be at the top. If you are not, doubts come.

We want to chase and seal the championship title. The decisive thing is to be at the top at the end of the season.

When you're not getting minutes, you're doubting every shot you take.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

At Liverpool, when warmed up, we enter the game or after 15 minutes go back to the bench.

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

That's the way people are in general: they see everything negatively at first and then choose to ask questions.

If you want to be successful and you want your teammates to respect you, you got to be open to advice from the older guys.

I just hope that God will give me the strength that I can prove my worth.

Everybody knows the NBA is the top of basketball in the world. The game here is more hard, more physical, faster than in Europe.

Football provides the most beautiful stories.

I always was a fan of the Lakers.

I'm not the kind of fighter who just hates each other before the fight. I can talk to you until one minute before the fight, and then I will take your head off if I can.

It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy.

It's an honor to be at the biggest club in the world.

Training, and every morning I have to take my dogs out into the forest. That's all I'm doing. I'm staying out of everything else. All other things that can take out my concentration and my energy from the training.

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

You start learning English in fifth grade. I was 12. But even before then I was listening to American music. My neighbor was a really big hip-hop fan, so he taught me everything around hip-hop.

I knew sooner or later I would show my quality and show to everyone why I'm here, why Real made such an effort to bring me here.

The UFC has been so good to me over the years, and it is hard to leave this company and this sport.

I never panic.

I had to move out when I was 14 and live by myself in the capital of Croatia. That's when it got a little serious. From there, I played on the Croatian national team.

I try to help people looking for food and money and clothes. I have done some radio transmissions here in Italy to tell people the truth about Croatia.

My mum said: 'Germany is our second home' and it's true. Germany gave us their open hands. I don't know which country could have done that, at that time, to welcome refugees from Bosnia.

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

I'm a firm believer in science.

I never was anybody's guy. I always was myself.

I don't care about personal stats or whatever. Winning is the most important thing.

When you fall, you always have the opportunity to get up.

You don't have to be a strapping lad to play football.

You can't manage every footballer the same. Of course you'd love to, but it doesn't work like that. We're not robots.

My biggest reason for coming is to prove to myself that I can play in the NBA.

Without being arrogant, I think I have proved I am one of the best defenders in the world.

All I dreamed of when I became a footballer was to play for a club as big as Real Madrid. It's maybe the most famous and best club in the history of football.

I am an optimist, not a dreamer.

I do a better job of standing in front of the guards than I used to. I can take it to a higher level as far as reading the offenses, reading where all of our guys are, so I can get into the right position.

Life writes the best stories.

Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in detail.

I worry for the future of the world. For my children.

When I came to UFC, I was treated like a king.

I don't want to think too much about the future. I want to go step by step, and we'll see what's next.

You can't predict things in football because anything can happen.

I would watch San Antonio play and see plays I recognized from the Russian team, the Yugoslavian team.

I shot millions and millions of shots, just wanted the ball and felt good every time I released the ball, especially in those last seconds of big games.