A Quote by Mirko Cro Cop

First I'm a sportsman and then a politician. — © Mirko Cro Cop
First I'm a sportsman and then a politician.
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the arts, a politician, a musician, a sportsman.
All people who are trying to say that only a sportsman should be appointed as an ambassador, I would like to differ from them. No need to think that only a sportsman can represent the country.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter... it is part of my character, I suppose.
[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."
I am a sportsman, not a brand ambassador, besides being the first goalkeeper of Adidas.
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society.
I love and respect my sport, but I am not a bad guy. First, I am a sportsman.
Mikhail Saakashvili would do everything within his power to destroy me, first as a politician and then as a person. All government authorities, including the police, the military and the courts, are controlled by those in power.
Donald Trump is succeeding right now for sure. He is a gifted politician. But, he is just a gifted politician. He`s just a gifted politician that is appealing to people`s anger and frustration that is quite legitimate.
A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.
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