Top 813 Quotes & Sayings by Portuguese Authors - Page 9

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

The Championship allows you to grow as a player. It is very competitive.

If you embrace a project that will require time and patience, then you need something to work on. So the first step of the project is to create an identity. If you don't have an identity, then today you want this player and tomorrow another one. If you have an idea and a shape, then this is how you develop an identity.

What motivates us is always new music.

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

What I keep trying in my mind is to work hard in the week to be better for the game.

When Cristiano burst on to the scene here in Manchester, he spent a good chunk of his early career here and enjoyed so much success. That's why it was a dream of mine to play for Manchester United and I'm very pleased to be here because it's a childhood dream come true.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.

How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?

The goals are the moments of beauty that the fans come for.

I feel the wolf is a very competitive animal, very intelligent. He works hard to achieve his goals and protects his family.

My dream when I was younger was always to be a Benfica player. So when I arrived on the first team to work with a coach that didn't count on me, who put me as a left back, of course I was a bit sad.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

I will always defend 1960s football.

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

A team changes when everyone pushes together for the same side.

Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.

I think the best place to work in football is England.

I try and avoid cardio because it makes me lose a lot of weight. Instead, I do resistance training, model fit workouts, and ballet.

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

The second season is always easier than the first one. When you change, it's always more difficult. You have to adapt to the way your team plays; you have to adapt to your team-mates, to the league, to the referees.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

The Chelsea experience was too much too soon. I wasn't flexible as a manager at that time. I was communicative, but I wasn't flexible in my approach.

Play in Ligue 1 is very closed, very aggressive.

In New York, I am barely recognised, or people don't really care. When I go to Portugal, I go outside to a public place and am recognised constantly.

Stateless people are hidden. During the 2011 refugee crises, it was obvious that people were fleeing Somalia and Libya - there was a lot of international attention. Statelessness goes undetected because stateless people are in legal limbo and are afraid to show up.

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.

If you got to Manchester City, if you don't work, you're out of the team.

There was one player who was better than Pele. It was Garrincha. He had one leg crooked, the other one straight, normal. How did he do all those things with such difficulties? He was a paralytic! And the way he played! Much better than us all!

Celebrate life in all its glory - challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.

New York cold gets into your bones, and you can't move.

So we draw a picture of what we want as a team and will follow that - understanding that sometimes you might have to do a new wall or the kitchen is not like that and you have to change it. But the idea is to follow the plan.

The United Nations must focus on delivery rather than process and on people rather than bureaucracy.

In Portugal, seeing a black cat is a bad sign; it's bad luck. But they tell me if it crosses from left to right, it's good luck. But I don't like black cats!

I defend like a man who likes to work too because I know that football is not just about what you do on the ball.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn't like to miss or lose.

I don't like being alone.

We enjoy what we do and, for me, playing football is the best work in the world.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

It's an honour to extend my deal with Manchester City. This club offers everything a player needs to fulfil their ambitions, and there's nowhere else I want to be.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

England was bad for me, I was not flexible in my ideas.

We'd tour for a year and a half and do an album and then tour for another year and a half and do another album. We thought we were invincible, but someone should have said, 'You guys need to take a little time off.'

You have to trust your team-mates, you have to trust yourself, and you have to believe.

If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.

The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.

All the coaches want to win every match, every coach is working to win every match.

I love football but it doesn't come in front of my family. One time when I was manager of Braga I cancelled my contract because I had a problem with my family.

The 1966 World Cup was the high point of my career. We may have lost the semi-final, but Portuguese football was a big winner.

When you have an individual trophy, of course, you are doing really well and deserve the credit but that credit goes to the team because they help you do better and better.

Plastic waste is now found in the most remote areas of the planet. It kills marine life and is doing major harm to communities that depend on fishing and tourism.

I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

We must make sure that when someone sees the Blue Flag, she or he can say, 'I am protected.'

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.