Top 129 Quotes & Sayings by Panamanian Authors - Page 2

I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.

Everyone has a black guy inside them. Mine is a Cuban sonero who is 80-something years old and sings better than I do. His name is Medoro Madera. Medoro has been recording since 1997.

Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.

I'm more conscious of where the outfielders are playing when I'm on base, and I don't take such wide turns anymore running around the bases. I'm still learning.

Back when I first came up with the Twins as a second baseman, Billy worked with me on my fielding, on playing the game, on being heads-up, hustling, always doing my best, not alibiing. And when he was the Twins' manager, I enjoyed playing for him.

I was born to be champion of the world.

My daughter told me, 'Daddy, if I don't make it, I don't want you to stop helping these other kids.' So that's where I've been able to go on. I tell people - and I really believe this - I didn't lose a daughter; I gained so many other kids.

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

You've got to have one of those guys on your ball club that, when you have runners on scoring position, you know that guy is going to drive the ball and put the ball in play and pick them up.

You just can't spend any time second-guessing yourself.

Every time I come back to the Twin Cities, I feel like I'm coming back home.

I don't feel invincible because I'm human.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.

Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well.

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

I don't want to pitch forever.

I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost.

I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

I'm a positive man.

Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

Our commitment to coaches will be realized via TeamCarew, a grassroots marketing program that will provide them with insight and tools to teach the art and science of hitting.

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.

I don't wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.

I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.

I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.

There's something about the tango that brings even more emotion out of the lyrics.

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.

Fame doesn't make me any different. I am the same man now who grew up in the hard streets of Panama. I am just myself. I always will be. Whoever wants to talks to me, talks to me. Whoever loves me, loves me for who I am.

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.