Top 136 Rican Quotes & Sayings

I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.

I always tell my wife she's married to the Puerto Rican Elvis.

I'm such a true Puerto Rican.

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

I grew up in a house where we danced all the time because we're Puerto Rican.

I am a Puerto Rican. I could have been born on the moon, but I'm still Puerto Rican.

I'm a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santeria.

I'm a raucous Puerto Rican!

I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

Drugs in a disco are great for white people because it allows them to feel more Puerto Rican while dancing.

I'm half Puerto Rican.

In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

I love Calle 13 - they are Puerto Rican; some songs sound like Reggaeton, but it's not Reggaeton; it's good urban music.

I just want to go down as one of the best Puerto Rican and best Latin fighters ever.

As a Puerto Rican, I'm always going be grateful to Jose Andres.

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.

I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].

The Documents Project has actively collected documentation on both island-based Puerto Rican art as well as Nuyorican art in the United States through partnerships and researchers ceded at the University of Puerto Rico's museum in San Juan and Hunter College's Center for Puerto Rican Studies in New York City, respectively.

The Puerto Rican fans have supported me and it means a lot. I'm a Puerto Rican just like they are.

But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.

The first day that I get to Fort Myers, there was a newspaper down there. The newspaper said, 'Puerto Rican hot dog arrives in town.'

It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter; we have a great history of fighters.

What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.

It is interesting that both Chicano and Puerto Rican art in the United States form an important part of the Civil Rights legacy and dialog.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.

A strong, durable Puerto Rican economy will leave the island better prepared to handle future natural disasters.

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

I grew up listening to Puerto Rican music like everybody else. But when I listened to Charlie Parker for the first time, I said, 'How does this guy play so fast?'

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

I don't think it's fair that you can say I'm not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn't born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.

The farther away you writers stay, the better I like it. You know why? Because you're trying to create a bad image of me... you do it because I'm black and Puerto Rican, but I'm proud to be Puerto Rican.

I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music.

I fought Miguel Cotto in Madison Square Garden on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade - it was like fighting the devil in Hell.

I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.

I'm actually Hispanic, and my mother is Puerto Rican.

It's great to be Puerto Rican, because Puerto Rico loves boxing. They don't have a lot of major sports down there.

I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

I've seen a lot of the great fighters, so I've always been a fan of the Puerto Rican fighters and I'm happy to be one myself.

It's amazing to be a Puerto Rican fighter, we have a great history of fighters. I say this all the time, 'I'm Puerto Rican, raised in Philadelphia so I got the best of both worlds. I got the Puerto Rican power and the Philly toughness. It comes a long way.

I'm a very fertile Puerto Rican.

I'm your idol, the highest title, Numero Uno, I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know, And understand, I got the gift of speech, And it's a blessin, so listen to the lesson I preach.

I just want to keep the Puerto Rican tradition of champions alive.

America is the only place in the world where you can work in an Arab home in a Scandinavian neighborhood and find a Puerto Rican baby eating matzo balls with chopsticks.