Top 681 Quotes & Sayings by Serbian Authors - Page 9

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

For a young player, the most important thing is to play.

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

I've been happy from the start at Newcastle. It has been my favourite club ever since I was small boy in Serbia.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

I always watch Chelsea games when I have the time and step-by -step, game-by-game, Chelsea is growing. I speak with Branislav Ivanovic, my friend and international team-mate a lot, a few times each month, so I know everything about the club.

I had a beautiful life as a basketball player.

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

The better team sometimes loses.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

I loved some classes - math, history, that's pretty much it. I didn't love physical activities.

You can see that just with the passing, you can destroy the defense.

I don't want to say something just to be a leader.

Someone said, 'He's not even in shape.' I am playing in 80 games and he said that I'm not even in shape.

Whatever you see in games, Kobe demands more in practice.

With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

I loved the fans here in Charlotte. They were very basketball-educated, very supportive of the team.

Pressure is just bad things for you.

I was small until I was 15, then grew about 12 inches in a year and built up my strength in the gym.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I thought, 'I'm going to play in Yugoslavia, then I'll go to play in Italy or Spain.' Then I'll be 28 or 29 and I'll try NBA. I never thought I can play in NBA because NBA was totally different world for us in Europe.

I'm happy to be working with Mourinho.

I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

I just think positive and positive things usually happen.

To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

When I get the rebound - push the ball. That couple of seconds when you're trying to find the point guard, you're losing in transition. You rebound, push the ball and the whole game is faster.

My opinion is always that players need to be happy. You cannot keep them in the squad if they are not happy.

My dream, play in NBA. When I come here, very difficult for me. It's new country, new language. But is still basketball for me.

Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.

I've picked up a few scars during games.

It's really cool. I don't know how many people in the world have a silver medal. Maybe a thousand?

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

It is always a tough game when you play against Arsenal; they have good players, and it doesn't matter what kind of moment they are in.

I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.

The team is always bigger than an individual or whatever, and a really good team can win a championship.

Whether you are fighting for the title or fighting at the bottom, you are always professional and want to win every game.

When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

I cannot guarantee anything.

For me, it is important to do well in what I'm doing, to achieve the goals I have for myself.

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

We feel we are blessed by God. We have happy lives.

To give the best I can, sometimes you will be brilliant or not.

It's always been my dream to compete.

Obviously, if some young girl wants my advice and wants me to be her mentor, I would be very happy to offer that. But I don't really see myself as a coach.

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.

Yes! I am big comic book geek. I can't live without them.

You want to feel free. Every player can show his best when he is free. If you are a little bit afraid of something, you cannot show your best.

Sometimes, you have tough times when you don't score goals, but the most important thing is to keep working hard.

Newcastle is in my heart, and even if I maybe go somewhere, Newcastle will be in my heart.

At all big clubs, there is pressure. They all want to win and expect to win.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.

A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

I cannot change myself. That's how I think. That's how I like basketball.