Top 581 Quotes & Sayings by Croatian Authors - Page 7

My thought is the only way I will have progress is in the NBA.

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

It was always a dream to come to the NBA.

I've been playing 10 years and I know it's easier starting the game. You have the opportunity to play much more aggressively.

I have great memories of Tottenham. I spent four great years there with a lot of emotions, with a lot of love from the club and the fans.

We were never happy with the way cello was recorded, and we wanted to experiment in the studio to make the cello rock as much as possible. On the second album, we had great help from Bob Ezrin, who helped us develop our sound even more.

Juve think always of the future. There are already new reinforcements.

I agree with Klopp, the Nations League is a ridiculous competition. There is no sense in playing these games. It's not a real competition that you have to win. You can call these games whatever you want, but the fact is they are friendly games!

Scottie was just a different character than Michael. He was more the soft side. Every once in a while he would explode, but he would help me. Michael on the other end was almost always aggressive.

I like to keep fighting in the bad moments and I will never say I am done.

I always watch the playoffs.

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

Santiago Bernabeu is the best stadium I have ever played in. I enjoy every minute on its pitch.

For what Ronaldo's achieved, he's amazing; he's a great team-mate.

When you see me laughing on the court, it means I'm having fun and enjoying the game.

For Croatians it means everything to play for the national team. Because of the past. A lot of people died in the war. It's like a duty for us to give everything.

I can talk 10 hours about football. From the moment I leave home, I talk about football.

The only 'special supplements' I'm using is two hard and bloody trainings per day, five days a week.

All my future plans are related to Real Madrid, and there are no other clubs on my mind. I'm so happy here along with my family. Few players have ended their career here, Zidane being one of the exceptions. I'd like to be one of those players, too, but time will tell what the future holds.

I think I want to come straight to the NBA, but if the team who drafts me, they want me to stay in Europe and develop my game, I will stay.

I have to go to the NBA and try.

I have to keep working hard and improving every day.

I am giving my best to have a quiet life but sometimes it doesn't depend on myself because people just want to come into my home and steal some things, even though I have nothing in my home.

Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.

The players who play have to perform. If they don't, then they will be replaced. That has always been the case.

When our video of 'Smooth Criminal' came out, suddenly we started getting all kinds of offers. We were getting calls from TV shows like 'Ellen DeGeneres' and from record labels.

I think every part of my body needs improvement.

I gotta defend, I gotta protect the rim, I gotta rebound, I gotta set good picks for the guys, finish on offense, and I think that is not going to change much.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.

I kind of expect that the people wouldn't know me. I know I'm tall and I cannot escape that.

You can't expect to score lots of goals in every game; football isn't like that.

The ultimate sports figure. The ultimate competitor. Great person. I consider him my friend. I wouldn't be that good if I was Michael Jordan.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

Only Vlade Divac go first year he play. The rest of the guys from Europe sit on the bench.

You need to believe. If you don't believe, you can never get anything.

A World Cup in Brazil has to be a career highlight for any player. Everyone wants to be there.

Everyone wants to play in the fourth quarter, everyone wants to close the game. It's the most important time of the game, so being out there is great.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

Guardiola took the decision to not play me in the DFB-Pokal final. He did not want me to win the trophy as top scorer, so he did not let me play during the end of the season. It was not really so important for me, but I felt it was a lack of respect towards me.

I didn't play the No. 4 spot much at all in Europe.

Of course I want to be on the floor in the fourth.

It's easy. You just shoot the ball and then hope it's going to go in.

I know that three months before the season is not enough to become a good NBA player, but it's a start.

Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.

For the players, these top, top, top games or these top, top, top events - like a World Cup or a European Championship - are not common but, of course, something special.

I made the wrong decision many times. Sometimes I can accept it, sometimes not because football is like that. But in the end it depends on yourself and whether you are ready to move on or not.

It is every player's dream to play at a world tournament.

Sometimes in my mind I have a picture of something happening, and because the foot is not right it is harder to happen. I see the ball and I can see myself intercepting it or rebounding or doing this stuff, and it's just not there. There's not the movement or explosiveness.

People always catch you on mistakes and they don't look at the good things you do.

It's all about togetherness and to pay the other the necessary respect. If you do that, then we all would feel better. It is not always a taking but also a giving in both directions.

The media exaggerate little things.

Saying that fights in Japan were fixed and that me, along with other guys like Silva, Minotauro, etc., did not win those fights legitimately is an ultimate and absurd nonsense.

Wherever I go, I have to speak English, which is my second language. So whenever you get a chance to speak in your own language? It feels good.

I think I should be respectful of fighters. This sport is brutal enough itself. I don't think you should say stupid statements or should act like savages.

I am very emotional.

People are still feeling like it's war. Croatians hate Serbians and Serbians hate Croatians. They don't want to talk to each other.

I've never considered leaving Atletico because I'm happy here.

Italy is a gorgeous country and I really like it.