Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Latvian Authors - Page 3

If we're winning, that's all that matters to me. If we're winning, I'll be happy. And that can help me grow.

When I have difficulties, I will not complain.

Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother.

It might be expensive to make music lessons available. But it's even more costly to deal with human beings who have half their intellect and spirit left undeveloped.

It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

A good team needs time to play together.

Before I got to the NBA, I always flew coach - it was the worst time of my life. I remember being 14 or 15, and it was such a struggle to fit into those seats.

I'll keep growing as a player, keep working out, trying to become what I want to become.

Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.

Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.

Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.

If we can win games, it doesn't matter who is scoring.

New York City is crazy; there are people everywhere. New York is the best city in the world, I think. You have everything there.

For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!

I just like boxing.

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

I just really love the game. I'm very hungry, and I'm looking forward to playing in the best league in the world.

I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

I believe whenever you're winning and doing the right thing, you're stats will be fine, and everything else will come in place.

I have to do a better job of picking the spots where I want to attack and picking the right moment when I need to attack.

I think American fans, they know more college guys than guys overseas.

Being appointed as the next Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester is a completely overwhelming honour. This extraordinary orchestra and its wonderful musicians are unique in so many respects, and particularly in their creation of an exceptional sound world based on outstanding tradition that is, at its heart, inspirational.

The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances.

With my height, I probably wouldn't be able to make money playing pingpong, but I would just have fun with it. The table is too low for me.

The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The music has everything, and you are there to find the balance when you conduct. You don't have to give too much of your individuality. It's Bach, so it's dangerous to get in the way.

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.

You need a long-term coach to be able to win.

I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of family that you get back home. The sense of growing deeper into the music, of making it all sound like chamber music - that comes from being together on tour.

I'm adding moves to my post game. I'm really working on staying low. I'm working on my strength overall, especially my legs. That's going to help me defensively as well.

I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

It's tough to find time to get rest.

The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.

For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.

I'm thankful to Deutsche Grammophon, our partners - we are going to record the complete Shostakovich symphonies and hopefully some other things as well.

Until that moment comes when the ball comes to me every time, I have to find a way to be effective with offensive rebounds, play hard defense, blocking shots.

Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.

I never forbid myself anything.

I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.

I think that's the type of game I'm better at - faster paced, just moving the ball more around.

I don't love the off-court stuff. But I know it's necessary.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

My voice is not angel voice.

I want to be a part of this organization, and I know the fans are a little harsh sometimes, but that's how it is here in New York, and I'm ready for it.

When I was eighteen and I won the European Championship - that's when I realized I had an opportunity to play in the NBA one day.

Puccini is my favorite composer.

I love the triangle. It's a great offense if you execute it well.

I listen to a lot of Drake and Meek Mill before games.

I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.

I've got that European swagger.

Though involvement in music and the arts can't cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide has the potential to help us reflect, at times, on the better angels of our natures.

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.

Of course the defenders are trying to be physical with me. They look at me, 7-3, skinny, they try to be physical.

You always gotta find a little bit of time for the girls, right?

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

One day, I'd like to get a quadruple double, points, assists, rebounds and blocks.

Us three brothers - me, Janis, and Martins - we made a bet. We all sat down and said we were going to grow our hair out. But after a month or two, they cut their hair. But I was too young to make the decision about whether I would get a haircut, so mine just kept growing. And it was so long that I decided I should start rocking those cornrows.