Top 813 Quotes & Sayings by Portuguese Authors - Page 10

It's true I was interested in going to Everton, but I didn't accept the offer.

Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.

Any player likes to feel good.

When it comes to 'Ala Modalaindi,' I was impressed with the storyline narrated by Nandini, the director of the film.

It's good to connect with people and enjoy yourself and to support your team-mates, too.

Live riotously lest not you regret the minutes, moments, hours and days of time gone by.

People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was that it did not bring wealth to the Portuguese. But it brought language, ideas. You'd go to the fish market, and all the women who were selling fish would call each other fascist, communist.

Of course every player wants to score, it's the most important part of the game, scoring goals and winning games.

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

Bare feet on the grass comfort the spirit and connect the body to the earth all at once!

When we go to the opera, we put the clothes on we know we must wear for there.

We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.

You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.

The world's problems transcend borders.

Football isn't won by one person but by collective competence. It is the quality of the players and the structure of the club.

Every team and club has its own personal goals and objectives, and I'm only concerned about mine.

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

I will never stop improving until I stop my career because I think every day you can improve, every day you can do something new, and every day you can do something better.

'Bigg Boss' is the biggest show in the world, and I'm sure anyone would want to host it, but not me.

I work a lot in the gym on injury prevention.

For me, a snack is supposed to be unhealthy! I like having chips or popcorn when I'm on set.

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Kids can learn a lot by seeing things rather than reading it.

It is important to show our European partners that Portugal is a governable country.

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

Well, uh, I don't know another way than to work at the top level, which is what I do every day.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

If we win trophies, it is the most important thing. Of course, it's good for a player to win individual awards and I will never say I don't want to be the best player in the league or I don't want to be the PFA Player of the Season.

Benfica against Manchester United is very special for me. Benfica is my real club but Manchester United is my English club. We are together in history.

As a kid, Liverpool was big for us.

Better than Zidane? That is impossible! It is always good for us to hear things like that, but we have to be real. I know where I am.

I try to be as fit as I can, eating well and sleeping well, because I know how intense it is here in the Premier League, especially when you play big games like Liverpool or Tottenham.

To play better, you have to think faster than the others.

It is really tough now to buy a player - everyone is asking millions and millions and millions.

A team doesn't have the ball for 90 minutes. It is about the recoveries. I do my best to do that and help the team any way I can. If that's a pass, an assist, a tackle or even if it's only running, I do it for the team.

I shoot swimsuits and lingerie all the time, so I want to make sure I'm in the best shape. It makes me want to work out harder than usual.

Football is like my family: everything. It's my dream, what I have always wanted to do and without football I'm not happy.

Since I am an outsider, I never knew how it feels to have a superstar in one's family.

In the U.K., we always had a special relationship with the audiences because it wasn't 'More Than Words' that broke us: it was 'Get The Funk Out' that broke first. That was what we had always dreamed of.

All of the successes achieved throughout my career and contacts with the fans have made me aware of my responsibility to act as an example in the world of football.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Dealing with negative comments is part of this job, and I've had to develop a thick skin, though some days it's easier than others.

That is how I play, I never give up.

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

When you look at human rights, look at gender, and the rights of girls for education in the world - that are crucial issues - some are saying 'Oh, these are western values.' But these are really universal values.

If you are a dictator of choices, players won't be able to explore their possibilities to the full. You have to be able to free them.

I'm like every other girl; there are things I wish I could change about my body, but I try not to think about them too much.

Yes, it's true, I absolutely hate losing. A lot. Not only football. It's in me, in my blood and I don't ever want to lose.

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don't know the consequence of playing badly.

I thought I could handle 'Nenu Local' well and make the romance seem cute than annoying, and going by some of the feedback, I think I managed it.

I'm very lazy when it comes to taking care of my underwear. I should hand wash it all, but I can't be bothered. So instead, I keep ruining stuff by putting it in the washing machine.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

I am not a person who says I must talk the same way to every player, I don't agree with this. Some are more introspective, we must act in a different way, the fuel of every player is different.

The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.

Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity is a basic condition for peace.

I moisturise a lot. I use Victoria Secret's hydrating body lotion.

The total elimination of nuclear weapons remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.

I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.