Top 681 Quotes & Sayings by Serbian Authors - Page 7

I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.

I'm kind of normal guy.

You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.

We are very passionate and very emotional people in Serbia. Everything we do, it is done with emotions. We are very good at sport, tennis, basketball, football ,water polo, volleyball. We always try to show this character and use it.

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

My father tells me I would have been a criminal or a kick-boxer. But fatherhood has changed me - a lot.

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

Serbian people are not soft, and if the coach wants me to play, then I will.

A point makes you happy; an assist makes you and your teammate happy. An assist makes two people happy.

There can be no unified southeastern Europe without Yugoslavia, and everything else is a continuation of political blackmail with which the Serb people and Yugoslavia were faced all these years.

I just love to pass.

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

I face so much jealousy, and I am incredibly upset about it.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

In cities like Miami, my hair can get so frizzy, it looks crazy. I use TRESemm Extra Hold hairspray. I use a lot of it.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

Living through war has helped make me pretty strong.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

I like to make goals, but sometimes a nice assist is even better than a goal.

I am not athletic.

For me, an assist is the same as getting a basket.

My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.

When I'm very motivated, and when I have to compete, I change a little bit; I become very competitive.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

I loved playing every sport. Soccer, water polo, horses. Whatever. I just loved it - especially competing against my brothers.

My head is always up, and if I see some player in a better position, I give the ball to him automatically. Sometimes I need to be more egotistical and put my head down.

X-Force was made like a brutal X-Men club - they're doing special forces, R-rated things.

I want to dominate the man's world.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

I came here and actually fell in love with Charlotte and the Hornets. That's exactly what happened to me. I found a new way of motivation. Charlotte basically extended my career for the next seven years. I was thinking of retiring. I was 30 and played seven more years after that, just because basketball felt different here in Charlotte.

Maybe 5 or 10 minutes before going on the court, I'll do some fast feet movements or sprint, but the only problem with that is sometimes after you finish warming up, you wait to get on the court, and you end up cooling down a little. It's not always ideal, but that's why I wait until the very last moment to do all of this.

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.

Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marriage material, it's terrible. But my dream is to have those Sunday mornings, where you're eating breakfast and reading newspapers with somebody.

When you fight for the game, fight to win and then get the goal in the latter minutes, especially at Old Trafford, it's a wonderful, amazing feeling.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is.

As in life, to be the best in basketball you can't put any limits on your existence.

For sure, in Italy, the sun always shines.

When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

Of course, we're going to talk trash or whatever. Both teams just want to win the game.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

For a lot of Croats, if you're a Serb, they don't want to associate with you. It's just stupid.

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.

We would like Serbia to become a member of the European Union as quickly as possible.

I've played regularly in a big club at Benfica, where it is not easy and there is a lot of pressure. In those years I learned to be a winner and play under that pressure.

Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.

I don't have tattoos, I have scars!

Coaches were all saying that I was really talented and I had potential, but coming from Serbia, it wasn't easy. The '90s were the hardest years for our country - we went through two wars.

I am not that fast and skilful. I am not Raheem Sterling, am I? So I know I have to use my strength and power in the box.

It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.

I am delighted to have joined Manchester United. To work with Jose Mourinho once again was an opportunity I couldn't turn down.

I play a good physical game.

I am a typical No 9.

Scoring will do a lot for my confidence.

It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it; go for it. You become a better human being.