Top 426 Quotes & Sayings by Uruguayan Authors - Page 2

I'd be happy to play in Sao Paulo. It would be a dream; that would be very exciting.

As a footballer, I have always found it better not to be too emotional. Better to be cool, consistent, clinical. Celebrate goals, yes, but keep your feelings for those you trust most.

When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

I much prefer being told off by Brendan Rodgers than by my wife. Brendan is more careful than my wife with what he says.

Put 'Luis Suarez' into an Internet search engine, and up comes the word 'racist.' It's a stain that is there for ever. And it is one that I feel I do not deserve.

The best strikers make you sit up and take notice because every time they get the ball, you think that something amazing could happen. Of course they'll score goals, but they'll have something in their game which makes you think, 'Wow, he can win this game by doing something magical.'

At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!

I am obviously a striker who likes to score a lot of goals and have done that in every team I have been with.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

The Italian Fabio Cannavaro, who was with Real Madrid when I played against him several times, was the best player in the world in 2006. He wasn't tall, but very quick and strong. He always knew his opponents well, as if he'd researched them.

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.

Retiring from international football was a personal decision, and I was very sure about what I was doing. I played for my country for more than ten years, and there were highs and lows. It was a fantastic experience, though, and the most wonderful thing is that it ended well.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

When I see some of the pitches which my father played on, I think that it must have been a different game.

I always have the hunger to score, to be on the pitch and finish the team's moves.

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

One of the things that makes the best teams in the world the best is the fact that, across midfield and up top, they are capable of hurting you.

I still sleep soundly every night. I'm not worried about everything people say.

Argentina produces great footballers, but Uruguay does the same.

My best years were 2010 and 2011, and the 2010 World Cup was the most incredible experience. Our tiny nation reached the semi-finals, I finished joint-top scorer in South Africa, and my goal against Germany was voted the best of the tournament. I was also named the best player of that World Cup.

'Negro' can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I've been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life.

I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.

I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

So much success from set pieces comes from practice. Maybe fans see a well-worked free-kick and think it looks good, but to get that, there has been hours of work that nobody has seen on the training ground.

I have always had a lot of responsibility, and I have always been committed wherever I have been asked to play.

In Uruguay, we are competitive; that's part of our character.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

Football puts everything at your fingertips. And I was raised in a way that focused everything on looking after your family. Faith really helped me realise that the temptations that you have on hand will give you joy, enjoyment, whatever, but only for a short while. And after that, it is all gloom.

I understand why biting is seen so badly.

Sometimes, in the last minute, against big teams... you never expect you have the chance to win, but there is that 'garra' that everyone talks about.

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

I have never been at a club where the players talked so much about a previous manager as they did about Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan.

There were great players at United, and I just didn't have the chance to play, which was fair. It was difficult getting into the team, that's all.

Scoring a goal feels a bit like a liberating act. It is a mix of sensations that only strikers can feel in their own guts. We work for that, to score. It is like a commitment, an obligation we take with ourselves.

What fulfills me are the goals that I have in life. And those goals are not just about scoring goals, although the goals give me a lot of strength and happiness.

The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.

'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

I can't recall playing for a team who weren't involved in a fight for points at the end of the season. That would be strange for me.

Atletico players have always been characterised by this kind of player in attack like Fernando Torres, Sergio Aguero, Diego Costa, and Radamel Falcao.

As long as I am playing football, I am prepared to play wherever I have to.

I wake up at 7 A.M. each morning and work out with a personal trainer.

I was very young at Manchester United, and I feel that I was just starting to find my feet when I was sold and Rooney was brought in.

To see a small, modest team built on hard work, where the players are so close, so together, win week after week, stay up there and play so well, when they're so consistent and they win the league, that makes people take them to their hearts.

We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow.

It is the entire team that has to work together. Football is a team game. We all have to give our all.

All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

Everyone is committed to giving their best and to putting in 100 percent in every match to win.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.