Top 100 Quotes About Rafael
#1. I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
Juan Manuel Marquez
#2. I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
Rafael Nadal
#3. I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
Rafael Nadal
#4. If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.
Rafael Nadal
#5. A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach-ache is quite another.
Rafael Sabatini
#6. I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period,
Rafael Palmeiro
#7. What is essential to the condition of plurality is this fine balance between similarity and dissimilarity among the partners of the exchange.
Rafael A. Calvo
#8. Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.
Rafael Nadal
#9. I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.
Rafael Nadal
#10. I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
Rafael Nadal
#11. The American Gun movement is actually very easy to understand. All of them, little boys with self esteem issues, exacerbated by an ever-present gun/phallic relation disorder. Apparently big guns fit well in small hands.
T. Rafael Cimino
#12. I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
Rafael Nadal
#13. Books aren't easy. If you want easy, watch the fucking movie.
T. Rafael Cimino
#14. In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation ... the essence of minstrel.
John Trudell
#15. Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
Rafael Yglesias
#16. Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.
Rafael Sabatini
#17. I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.
Rafael Nadal
#18. Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Rafael Vinoly
#19. And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.
Rafael Sabatini
#20. If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.
Rafael Benitez
#21. If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.
Rafael Benitez
#22. I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
Rafael Nadal
#23. If you go into the Ecuadorian Amazon and you stick your hand in the ground, what you get is oil sludge. The oil companies continue doing whatever they please.
Rafael Correa
#25. In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
Rafael Nadal
#26. As a manager you are important sometimes and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me the special one.
Rafael Benitez
#27. I always train like a family. Antonio Rodrigo is like my mentor. He helped me a lot. He's always there with me. My coaches and I have made a strategy for this fight.
Rafael Cavalcante
#28. I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
Rafael Nadal
#29. The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#30. To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
Rafael Yglesias
#31. I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
Rafael Nadal
#32. I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you but you have to enjoy your game.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#33. In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.
Rafael Nadal
#34. Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.
Rafael Soriano
#35. It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
Rafael Yglesias
#36. How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.
Rafael Cruz
#37. I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
Rafael Palmeiro
#38. You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.
Rafael Sabatini
#39. Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
Rafael Moneo
#40. I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
Rafael Palmeiro
#42. There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
Rafael Palmeiro
#44. My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
Rafael Nadal
#45. Take your time, now,' said Mr. Blood. 'I never knew speed made by overhaste.
Rafael Sabatini
#46. I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.
Rafael Nadal
#47. I play each point like my life depends on it.
Rafael Nadal
#48. Who was the founder of American education? John Dewey - you know that very well - card-carrying Communist. The American education system, in America - one of the so-called 'founders' was a Communist
Rafael Cruz
#49. He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche)
Rafael Sabatini
#50. Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.
Rafael Palmeiro
#51. The first point is always important, more so in a Wimbledon final
Rafael Nadal
#53. I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.
Rafael Nadal
#54. At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
Rafael Moneo
#55. I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.
Rafael Correa
#57. From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea.
Rafael Sabatini
#59. I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.
Rafael Nadal
#60. What's so ludicrous about Rafael wanting to travel?'
'He has a life here. He's a Bancroft, for God's sake.'
'I believe he thinks he's already explored that aspect of his life to death, Quinlan.
Suzanne Enoch
#62. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
Rafael Nadal
#63. I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
Rafael Nadal
#64. Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.
Rafael Soriano
#65. As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.
Rafael Cruz
#66. Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
Rafael Nadal
#67. Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.
Andre Vltchek
#68. But the thing is that I'm in love with Rafael's story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael's journal, it's as if I can see myself. It's better than a mirror.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#69. The Democrat is the party that's gonna keep you poor!
Rafael Cruz
#70. I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
Rafael Nadal
#71. It does not make me ridiculous simply to be less foul than those about me.
Rafael Sabatini
#72. Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.
Jacob Young
#73. If the windmill should prove too formidable," said he, from the threshold, "I may see what can be done with the wind.
Rafael Sabatini
#74. I'm delighted and feel incredibly happy with what have been an amazing two months.
Rafael Nadal
#75. When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself
Rafael Sabatini
#76. I will work day after day like I did my whole life ... I'm not going to change anything.
Rafael Nadal
#78. Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.
Rafael Sabatini
#79. I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
Rafael Vinoly
#80. I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal
#81. Before the constitution can protect the people it must first protect the person.
T. Rafael Cimino
#83. On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.
Bjorn Borg
#84. I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
Rafael Palmeiro
#86. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
Rafael Palmeiro
#87. Oh, sweet Jesus, English, I'm in love with you! Isn't that reason enough to marry me and put me out of my misery? - Rafael pg 451
Shirlee Busbee
#88. I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
Rafael Palmeiro
#89. Always I believe that I can play better. But I am happy.
Rafael Nadal
#90. Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.
Rafael Nadal
#91. If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.
Rafael Nadal
#92. Enemies." "What Christian resignation!" "As for hating you, of all people! Why ... I consider you adorable. I envy Leandre every day of my life. I have seriously thought of setting him to play Scaramouche, and playing lovers myself.
Rafael Sabatini
#93. Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha!
Rafael Sabatini
#95. Rafael possessed unfathomable strength. His speed defied the laws of nature...and his bite, good God, his bite. How could something so macabre feel so pleasurable?
Brooklyn Ann
#97. But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,
Rafael Sabatini
#98. There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing.
Rafael Vinoly
#99. Knowing what to do is one thing. Knowing you're the one who's going to do it is something else entirely.
T. Rafael Cimino
#100. We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.
Rafael Cruz
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