Top 129 Quotes & Sayings by Panamanian Authors

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I always felt like I was healthy; I never felt like anything was wrong with me. Until the morning that I had a massive heart attack. On the golf course, by myself.

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.

I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.

My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

I'm not God - but I am something similar.

I don't think any professional accepts defeat.

I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.

God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.

De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

I don't accept ideologies that are not a product of consensus. I don't have an ideology, but I do have a sense of what's right and what's wrong.

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

I think the Angels could use me the most. The Angels don't have a day-to-day first baseman.

I listen to Christian music.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Get your heart checked. I've always looked at myself as healthy, but I wasn't.

Tell your friends to get their hearts checked.

Here I am, a black man with a white man's heart. In the end, that's what God wants us to do. He wants us to help, and he wants us to share.

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

I go back to when my youngest daughter was dying. I never asked my Friend Upstairs, 'Why me?' And He's the only one who has the answers.

There is only one legend. That's me.

My job has usually been to get on base so others can drive me in.

I really feel that if it wasn't for the accident, I'd still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound; and after that, I would have trained.

Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.

I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk.

I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour.

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

I always take time for somebody who wants to talk to me.

To me, I was just doing my job when I took the field, but to understand how close I came to death, I now realize what God has given me when he brought me into this world; he knew what he was doing.

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

I never liked talking about myself or my background because I hated bringing back bad memories. And sometimes when I talked, it would come out the wrong way, and I'd look like a jerk. That's why I became an enigma to people.

If you didn't know Fred Claire, you didn't know anyone.

Your first hit in the majors - that's tops. It means you're on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.

I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recognized that the urban content and the approach seemed very familiar and very connected to the songs that I was doing, the kind of songs that I wanted to write - the songs about the street.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

We have to help others. I hope that some of the young players today understand that. It's not about them. The Man Upstairs gave them that ability to play, and play consistently, but he also wants them to open their hearts and understand that people need their help.

He who gives love, receives love.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.