Top 100 Quotes About Madrid
#1. I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
Walid Jumblatt
#2. Madrid excites me. They are one of the best teams in the world.
Isco
#3. I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sign that it's time to leave. For now though, I'm happy here at the greatest club in the world.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#4. I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In
Claire Messud
#5. The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#6. If you look around world, the great brands are Real Madrid, Manchester United. The Yankees, the Cowboys and the Lakers are there. We should aspire with the Maple Leafs to be there.
Tim Leiweke
#7. Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid's history
Marco Reus
#8. I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
Parminder Nagra
#9. I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#10. La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.
Pedro Almodovar
#11. Casillas saying he wouldn't sign Messi for Madrid? Messi has a place in every team in the world.
Carlo Ancelotti
#13. Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
Mark Twain
#14. The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.
Bill Alexander
#15. The club [Real Madrid] has a fantastic set-up with marvellous people. The atmosphere at training is perfect - it's just wonderful
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#16. In Madrid, there's a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, 'I want to be up there.' That was my dream, and I got it.
Maria Valverde
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#18. When she returned to the office, she found that Mr Jasper Cohen had gone abruptly on holiday. His son had been killed in Spain - he had been shot, near Madrid, rather more than a year before; a friend of his had written, on returning safe to England, to tell his father so.
Doris Lessing
#19. Winning one league title at Roma to me is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
Francesco Totti
#20. I was asked a question: 'Would I want to play for Madrid?' It's like anyone asked if they want to change jobs and move to a bigger company.
Luis Suarez
#21. Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
Zinedine Zidane
#22. You play for a club like Real Madrid, the people outside start talking.
Royston Drenthe
#23. If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.
Joaquin Sorolla
#24. Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?'
'Faffing about, most likely', said Will.
Cassandra Clare
#25. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?" I opened my mouth to say San Francisco or maybe Madrid - somewhere exotic. But what came out was, "Here. Right here.
Heather Demetrios
#26. Real Madrid is a great club, and I will have some great players at my disposal who all want to help improve the level of the team.
Juan Ramon Lopez Caro
#27. The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#28. Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.
Ronald Reagan
#29. Yet hundreds of years ago cartographers from Europe decided that Madrid was above Rio de Janeiro and that Australia should be way "down under." From then on, we have always looked at the world from the same fixed viewpoint.
Shawn Achor
#30. Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
Yitzhak Rabin
#31. I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.
Laurie Graham
#32. Don Alfredo, greatest legend of Real Madrid, always with us. I will always remember maestro.
Iker Casillas
#33. For gardens, Granada; for women, Madrid; but for love - your eyes, when they look at me." Lina jotted down these lines in a notebook and learned the song herself.
Simon Morrison
#34. Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#35. Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.
Penelope Cruz
#36. After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
Otto Schily
#37. I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.
Xabi Alonso
#38. Part geographical, part political, part cultural, Latin America overspills its bounds: is Belize Latin America? Quebec? Miami? Lavapies, Madrid? The Gaucho Grill, Manchester?
Jon Beasley-Murray
#39. But there was something else that I discovered in Madrid. It had more to do with the spirit than it did with knowledge and yet it was something I could hope to hand on. A change in method or technique accounts for many things in human history.
Wilder Penfield
#40. I chose Real Madrid instead of Barcelona because I'm a winner, not a loser
Alfredo Di Stefano
#41. Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
Fernando Torres
#42. I adore Madrid. It's my city. If I ever move, it will only be for work. Whenever I travel, I always want to get back home.
Maria Valverde
#43. I've always been a big fan of Thierry Henry. I enjoy watching all the great players, really. But we're always drawn to some players more than others, and in my case, it's Titi. He's my favourite player. I also really liked Luis Figo when he was at Real Madrid.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#44. I'm happy in Madrid, my kids are happy and my wife is happy, so everything's good. If anyone knows about contracts they take a while to sort out.
David Beckham
#45. Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#46. The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
Diego Maradona
#47. What he remembers with perfect clarity is sitting on a train headed for Madrid, feeling the sort of happiness he imagines spirits might feel, freed of their earthly bodies but still possessed of their essential selves.
Michael Cunningham
#48. I support Real Madrid. I'm a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Virat Kohli
#49. Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
Natalie Dormer
#50. When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.
Luis Figo
#51. We've only recently turned the corner on the Sept. 11 attacks being blamed on Jews and Israelis, as well as almost every other terrorist attack, whether in London, Madrid, Bali or Egypt.
Abraham Foxman
#52. When I am in Madrid, I just like to see my friends and walk around the city. I go to the school where my mum works and help out. My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.
Maria Valverde
#53. I showed that I wasn't just at Real Madrid to sell shirts.
David Beckham
#54. When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
Gareth Bale
#55. If Real Madrid land on Manchester airport, then the airport will be surely flooded just to see one player whom fans want most. Everyone knows the name, I don't need to tell it. He is the Prince and legend of Manchester,The King and legend of Real(Madrid). 'CRISTIANO RONALDO'
Gary Neville
#56. I have played for Real Madrid, which is such a big club and where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and, really, win absolutely every game. There is no game where people don't expect you to win. So, having played there for three years, pressure is nothing that would scare me.
Mesut Ozil
#57. I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.
Antonio Banderas
#58. If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later.
Joe Kinnear
#59. I flew from Madrid, Spain, to New York, USA, from where I embarked on what would become a 6.5-years-continuous-around-the-world journey. My aim was to treat the world as a single destination, and to explore it as if it were one huge country.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#60. The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
Carolina Herrera
#61. I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.
Brooklyn Decker
#62. Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.
Voltaire
#63. I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding.
Louise Nurding
#65. He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone, anyone, if it would provide a respite from the loneliness and rain and cold of Madrid, but this was a discovery that he preferred to conceal.
Roberto Bolano
#66. We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key.
Richard M. Daley
#67. Watching soccer is my main hobby, really. I'm no tactician or coach, but I enjoy watching the free flow of it, the different styles, and the histories behind clubs. Like Barcelona vs. Madrid - it's not just a soccer game; it's a geopolitical struggle. There are great storylines and no commercials.
Andrew Luck
#68. I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.
Julio Iglesias
#69. Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.
Emilio Estevez
#70. The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Sergio Aguero
#71. It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn't a level playing field.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#72. When I moved from Independiente to Atletico Madrid, I was only 18, and I found it hard to adapt. But what surprised me most about moving to England was how fast the game was. I like it, but it is so quick.
Sergio Aguero
#73. The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
Jon Meacham
#74. I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.
Mesut Ozil
#75. Real Madrid is a legendary team that stands above all others and is the target of all players.
Franz Beckenbauer
#76. Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass.
Roberto Mancini
#77. I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
Daisy Fuentes
#78. I would love to play for Real Madrid. And I want to win a World Cup for the U.S. so bad. When the women won it, everybody went crazy. I would love to be part of something like that.
Freddy Adu
#79. My husband and I like cities. We like to go to other cities. Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, London. We're not big beach people. We're the type that get those books out and go to every museum. We are those people.
Julie Halston
#80. Liverpool are one of the dynasties of the game. They have won five European Cups and their status is up there with AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Brendan
#81. Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir
or Sewer
Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Tony's.
Patrick Dennis
#82. I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid.
David Beckham
#83. One day I'm a normal person with a normal life," he said. "The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get arrested. It was completely crazy. But it seemed like the only way at the time.
Tyler Hamilton
#84. I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities I've visited, like Madrid, Rome and London, have a lot of similarities and "New York" elements while ... having their own flavor.
Bobby Flay
#85. Travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid ...
Sheila Ostrander
#86. Real Madrid are like a rabbit in the glare of the headlights in the face of Manchester United's attacks. But this rabbit comes with a suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals.
George Hamilton
#87. The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Gary Neville
#88. Hello, it's a dream for me to play for Real Madrid. Thank you for the great welcome. Go Madrid!
Gareth Bale
#89. I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
Zinedine Zidane
#90. To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.
Norman Granz
#91. We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq ... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
Marek Belka
#92. Real Madrid fans have to wear sunglasses while watching their team because this star-studded team of diamonds is just astonishing.
Ray Hudson
#93. My life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so of course I want to stay as long as I can.
David Beckham
#94. To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.
Ernest Hemingway,
#95. You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.
Jermain Defoe
#96. Every player would love to get to the absolute top, and Real Madrid is it.
Luis Suarez
#97. Messi alone is more dangerous than Real Madrid's attacking trio Ronaldo, Benzema and Bale.
Diego Simeone
#98. I'm happy of being in Real Madrid ... I've fulfilled my dream.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#99. To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for Real Madrid.
Luis Figo
#100. I've always dreamed to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and we are only one step away to win it
Cristiano Ronaldo
