Top 310 Quotes & Sayings by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 2

Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

Governments cannot interfere in football matters - Fifa suspends countries for that.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

If you don't have your gameplan right, as a big man against a little man, you are in trouble.

I like to be in big open spaces with high skies.

With Keita, he will hunt you down, get the ball, then 'either get in the box and score or he has the same type of 'passing range Philippe Coutinho had in the final delivery.

I'm in the gym every morning.

Going through my time as a coach in Zimbabwe and in South Africa, I know for a fact if there is anything dodgy in a game, look at the three people in black. They are the catalyst.

If you lose a fight you were paid £800,000 for, the next fight you'll get £100,000 so that's a big drop. If your ratings drop everything drops. I just want to make a good living for my daughter and the rest of my family and to enjoy life.

When you lose badly, when you get knocked out and the ref has to stop it, that's when you know it's been a bad fight. But when you lose a fight having over the 12 rounds and you don't look like you've done any rounds, that's when you know it's quite good.

I don't talk to scum.

No cares about the Muhammad Ali trophy.

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.

It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, 'What is it that I want from my life?' This question kept haunting me: 'Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?

Alisson is undoubtedly one of the best goalkeepers in the world and he deserves to be put on that pedestal. Him and Manuel Neuer are probably the best two when it comes to angles - those two are the very best in the world at getting their angles right, they don't have to dive because they aren't out of position.

People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.

I don't want to write because I have to; I want to write because I want to. Sometimes, when writers write because they have to, the results are disastrous.

I wish to be clear: all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.

We should never remain hostages of our past.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

Why would I want anyone to advertise on the soles of my boots? The only time you'll see the soles of my feet is when I'm dead.

I used to spar Dillian when he was doing kick-boxing.

I might lose nine or 11 rounds but who knows what's going to happen in the 12th round?

Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn't submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really.

I did probation for three years.

The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate board rooms if we are to enjoy future financial, economic and political stability.

Every fight is important.

Robert Mugabe is not representative of who we are, what we stand for, or how we want to be viewed by the rest of world. We are peace-loving people, respectful of foreign representatives, who want the country to be a prosperous, productive. and responsible member of the global community.

What happened between me and Vitali, and Haye and Wladimir made the Klitschkos stars in Germany.

Everyone else who has fought the Klitschko brothers has been scared.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Petr Cech is one of the finest goalkeepers I have seen and he has proved that in the Premier League.

I'm from the streets.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

We do everything for money.

People ask me why I can still smile on the pitch when we're losing. I tell them that if you lose your smile and stop being happy, you should find yourself a plot in the graveyard.

When you enter into a struggle, and you genuinely believe in what you are doing, and you live under injustice, and you live under a regime that is dictatorial and oppresses people, there have to be sacrifices.

Every time I have lost, I have rebuilt myself.

I used to be a crazy man.

Takam is tough. I realized I couldn't trade with him toe-to-toe. I knew the overhand right could catch him.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

We want to try and get Joseph Parker, as long as he doesn't run like an Australian chicken.

We must allow people to agitate for whatever they want. They must be allowed to campaign for their views.

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

I love being a father.

I will end the Klitschko reign and cause a massive upset that will be felt around the world.

I'm a big believer in cash but I'd never buy a property with cash.

Someone has to take the bad role and as long as people are tuning in and watching the sport that I love, I don't mind.

I can still deliver behind closed doors, we just need to get a recording of the fans singing and shouting in the arena so I can hear them chanting.

When you're a dad you get guys who say 'I don't change nappies' but really and truly everyone changes nappies.

It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.

If Alisson stays at Liverpool long enough he could break all the records that myself and Ray Clemence achieved.

I'm not even sure that I want to go back... The Zimbabwe that I really loved, the Zimbabwe that I grew up in, just isn't there anymore, and I'm not sure about the country that has replaced it.

You know, the one thing you never lose as a sportsman is your competitiveness.

To get a fighter like Usyk is a lie and for him to get a fighter to spar like me is a lie. I didn't need anyone to box like Usyk, what I wanted was southpaws to see the way they stand and the way they move their feet.

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

I actually don't sleep much; I only need about four hours a night.

The multi-party agreement, known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA), created the Government of National Unity (GNU) that has acted as Zimbabwe's governing institution since 2009.

I'm actually a very nice guy.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.