Top 813 Quotes & Sayings by Portuguese Authors - Page 13

There are those who say that defeats teach a lot, but also learning to win is not bad.

My body doesn't have a lot of curves; I have small breasts, I don't have hips - so I'm not going to try to make myself something that I'm not. I'm just going to try to be the best version of myself.

This is one of the challenges we have: knowing that playing without the ball is just as important as when you have the ball.

I am a happy man. I am no longer out on the pitch but I still live in the football world.

Flamengo usually contact managers who have won a lot of trophies.

When you come from younger teams, and you reach the main squad, there are always difficulties you have to deal with, like the intensity, the maturity, and the experience of the players.

I was seven and a half, nearly eight when I arrived. I was always a Porto fan, so they were 12 extremely big years for me.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

Anjana knew me inside out even before we got hitched, and now married life is blissful. We are very happy.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

Not many people know this but my team in England is Manchester United. Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, George Best, all great players. We created a bond when we played each other and I still speak to Bob from time to time, though I can't get used to calling him 'Sir Bobby.'

Sometimes, when you have an opportunity in your mind but you lose it because you have a contract with the club and you are an important player for that club, and you miss out on what could be your dream, sometimes it is not easy for a player.

Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.

In Portugal, there are just four or five teams who have 30,000 fans in their stadium, but teams in the middle of the table don't have many fans.

In football, whatever can happen can happen when the team performs well and sometimes when the team does not perform as well.

I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

For me, the emotion of the game is a normal situation.

I'll try to be young mentally and physically as long as I can to play as many games as possible, but I know, at one point, it will start to be more difficult.

To be honest, I'm now at one of the best teams in the world. To be part of this club and to have this opportunity is great. I'm very happy to be part of Manchester City's team, and I look forward to trying to do my best to help the team reach their goals.

I respect the people who work with me, and I respect the crowds in the stadiums - I just live the game and try to advise my players in the right moments. If that means I have to raise my arms and jump, I will raise my arms and jump if that is the best way to help them.

I love having the mountains nearby so I can get on the motorbike or bike and get off to go for a walk.

We want to play every game like it's the last game of our lives.

At Sporting I have found the trust and I am at home. I had the chance to come and I immediately picked it up.

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

I would say, 24/7, I am thinking about football.

The United Nations needs to be nimble, efficient, and effective.

I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

Unhappy is a nice word.

I find most of the things I've done through the Internet. I'm like, 'Oh, that's how that turned out! I look good!'

We had a nightmare on our first album, and went through two producers. I decided, on the second album, to take the money that we were supposed to use for pre-production, and we went into a studio and cut the album with no producer. We finished the whole thing without telling the record company.

Feed your brothers and sisters simply, graciously, with generous care, and you will secure a place in their heart.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

I believe society and football are all the time together, and will come to a new harmony.

I was champion for Monaco and had planned a five-day vacation with my friends in Palma de Mallorca. On the second day, I get a phone call from Jorge Mendes with the news of the Manchester City proposal.

I do what I need to do to stay fit. I train well. I eat well. I drink water and hydration drinks.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I am crazy about football.

At first, I am a bit timid, but when I know people I feel better. Then I give a real impression of Joao Moutinho.

It is a part of my job: I always try to do my best.

You have to love your job.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

We have to keep our strong mentality every time, with a good emotional balance to support everything, whether an opponent provokes you or not, because the opponent is doing his job as well.

I'm glad that so many directors are keen to work with me.

Football is a party for everyone to enjoy and be part of.

For me the most important thing is what you can do as a player and a team, not to talk about individual things.

Mourinho is a legend at Porto.

But what a club West Ham are, such a big club, the supporters are fantastic.

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

When you realise that the ball is faster than you, you say to yourself, 'OK, I love the game. I want to go on in this game, but not as a player.'

The most important target is the trophies. Trophies will be more important than scoring goals.

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

I personally like melodies. And Mani Sharma garu is the Melody Brahma.