Top 681 Quotes & Sayings by Serbian Authors - Page 10

I just want to play hard and do the things coach asks me to do.

I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

I learnt a lot of things in Holland, as people have great vision there. It improved me as a player and a person. I had very good coaches that wanted to play offensive football and dominate games and be better than their opponent. You also need to play for your team-mates as well as yourself; then, afterwards, you can show your own quality.

I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court.

Even when I get dressed up to go out, I never use too much makeup.

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

I believe the only muscles you need in basketball are the ones in your brain.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

Football is like that: you never know when things will change, so you can never give up.

It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.

I have enjoyed my time at Chelsea and would like to thank the club and the fans for their support.

Every goal is a nice goal, great feeling, but the most important thing is we grab the three points and give the fans a nice afternoon.

No one can undermine national unity.

I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!

Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in - it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.

Becoming a part of the Marvel Universe was my childhood dream. Like most kids growing up, I read a lot of comic books and acted out some of the characters with friends. Since I can remember, I wanted to be a superhero, so it's not just a movie for me - or just another role - it's a fulfillment of my dreams on so many levels.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

Basketball is an emotional game.

When I used to play, I loved playing international because it's more freedom and more ability to improve.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

I need nine hours of sleep because of all the activity I do. It doesn't always happen, but I really try.

My son is now a big Man United supporter. Of course, he supports me always.

In the early '80s there was a big gap between the NBA and the international game and when we started making our careers here in the NBA, obviously, we became better players. When we used to play each other on the international level, that gap became smaller and smaller.

I love inappropriate humour.

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

If you ask any player, they will always say the same. They play to win.

Most of the coaches just tell you, 'No, no, you're doing well. This is fine.' But I actually want someone who will tell me what I didn't do right so that I can improve.

It was a lovely story that I finished my career with Kobe, with somebody who I was traded for. I have a lot of respect for the guy. I think he's definitely, by far, the best talent that I ever, ever played with.

If the NBA wants me to be somebody who can say, 'It is flop or not?' I'll do that for free. For fun.

Thank God there was no yellow card in basketball because I would get a red card every game.

In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.

You want to score in every game and to fight hard.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

I had to know at least two languages.

I have always liked my hair when it's braided, because if I don't, it kind of runs in my eyes when I hit.

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

When you score, you don't think about what you will do.

That's the Serbian way. That's the way we approach things, especially in sport. We are a small country, but if we want something, we will fight for it. It's maybe part of the history of the country; it's just our mentality. We are small but strong.

It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.

Shaq wasn't talented - he was just strong. I was talented, but I wasn't strong.

The paint is something we need to defend.

I think the city is the strongest social memory organ of humanity.

When I was young, basketball wasn't my No. 1 priority.

I'm very determined, and I know I can achieve, so I don't let little setbacks put me down.

There are times when the only people you spend time with are the people in your team. That's hard, because I think, 'I'm a girl. I want to hang out with other girls. I just want to be a normal young woman.'

When I was younger I always liked to pass.

I don't think I'm that funny.

One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

My grandfather and I were very close.

I am happy to give assists. It's my way of thinking and I expect that from my team-mate for me.

I'm just playing basketball, the same way I have always played, from juniors and even back to middle school, I'm just doing it the same way. Nothing different. Just a team game, playing and having fun and trying to play the right way.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

In NBA anything is possible.

If I weren't a tennis player, I'd probably be a psychologist.

First of all, I would love to see people remember me as a good passer, not as a good flopper. But flopping was, in some period of my career, a part of my game, especially against Shaquille O'Neal. It was the only way I could try to stop him. And I did well, I guess.