Rafael's Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#2. 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. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#3. 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. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#4. 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. - Author: Rafael Cavalcante

#5. To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism. - Author: Rafael Yglesias

#6. 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. - Author: Rafael Van Der Vaart

#7. 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. - Author: Rafael Yglesias

#8. Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend... - Author: Rafael Reyes

#9. There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships. - Author: Rafael Palmeiro

#10. It's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep. - Author: T. Rafael Cimino

#11. My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#12. 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. - Author: Rafael Palmeiro

#13. I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#14. 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. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#15. 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. - Author: Suzanne Enoch

#16. 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. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#17. 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. - Author: Rafael Soriano

#18. 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. - Author: Benjamin Alire Saenz

#19. The Democrat is the party that's gonna keep you poor! - Author: Rafael Cruz

#20. Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking. - Author: Jacob Young

#21. When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself - Author: Rafael Sabatini

#22. On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now. - Author: Bjorn Borg

#23. It's not the time to look for excuses. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#24. 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. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#25. Knowing what to do is one thing. Knowing you're the one who's going to do it is something else entirely. - Author: T. Rafael Cimino

#26. I don't know what you're talking about. I just like animals," Rafael said. "So does Sky, except he's kind of a hippie soulbonder about it. - Author: Rose Christo

#27. It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso. - Author: Rafael Benitez

#28. It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#29. That's painful always to lose. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#30. All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity. It's an effort to make you realize that God is your government. Your government is God. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#31. He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
the ball. I just like watching him hit. - Author: Jorge Posada

#32. It's the same old story, all you think about is money. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#33. You don't need a hand-out, you need a hand-up! And that's what we need to portray: 'Look, do you want to live in mediocrity? Because that's all that the entitlements are going to do for you. Keep you living in the lowest socio-economic scale. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#34. As long as I'm not taking a penalty we will be OK. But if it's like two years ago I will need a doctor. - Author: Rafael Benitez

#35. I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#36. We're (Juan Gonzalez) like brothers. I'm sure he was very happy to see me get it done, and it's not very long from his day, so hopefully I'll see that and we'll be on the same team. - Author: Rafael Palmeiro

#37. Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities. - Author: Rafael Benitez

#38. Percocet? Seriously?" Brian laughed bitterly. "That's so nineties. He should at least update his addictions. - Author: Rafael Yglesias

#39. Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe. - Author: Rafael Van Der Vaart

#40. Yeah yeah," h said. "I waited. She was decent. Although technically, she's still naked."
"You're sch a perv," she turned on to me. "Okay, kitty. Lead on. We'll try to keep up."
"Yeah,good luck with that," Rafe said. "If she runs, we're history. - Author: Kelley Armstrong

#41. Let's all stand for the separation of Church and hate ... - Author: T. Rafael Cimino

#42. They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media. - Author: Rafael Correa

#43. We see systematically taught in our high schools today that kids not have to hear their parents, that they can make their own rules, and not even live by what their parents, so there's no guidance from the parents. And there's a concerted effort why - government must be their God. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#44. MVP is the best player in the league. I think that's too big for me. When people call me the MVP, I'm a little surprised by that. - Author: Rafael Soriano

#45. I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also. - Author: Rafael Palmeiro

#46. You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#47. Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#48. For a while she had a vague longing to be a psychologist. "Talking therapy is dead," Gary said when she raised the idea. "It's all pills now. - Author: Rafael Yglesias

#49. I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#50. Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#51. He's a fantastic player and he's going to be around so much longer so I'm happy with every one I get before he takes them all - Author: Rafael Nadal

#52. The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this. - Author: Rafael Palmeiro

#53. Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely. - Author: Rafael Yglesias

#54. I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game. - Author: Rafael Palmeiro

#55. anyone who has done any teaching or coaching knows that one's mastery of a subject deepens considerably in trying to explain it. - Author: Rafael Aguayo

#56. I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#57. The fundamental basis is this: Socialism requires that government becomes your God. That's why they have to destroy the concept of God. They have to destroy all loyalties except loyalty to the government. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#58. The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#59. I don't know how your dad could have left you alone, anyway," Rafael said indignantly. "It's obvious you're the coolest person on the planet. - Author: Rose Christo

#60. What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#61. During a match, you are in a permanent battle to fight back your everyday vulnerabilities, bottle up your human feelings. It's a kind of self-hypnosis, a game you play, with deadly seriousness, to disguise your own weaknesses from yourself, as well as from your rival. - Author: Rafael Nadal I Farreras

#62. The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal. - Author: Rafael Sabatini

#63. The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#64. The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance. - Author: Rafael Vinoly

#65. Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure. - Author: Rafael Correa

#66. Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play ... but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well ... and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!! - Author: Rafael Nadal

#67. My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#68. It's a sociological law that the more information you give people, the more government policy becomes dependent on public opinion.' Those were the words of Rafael Safarov, - Author: Archie Brown

#69. The champions are the team with the most points ... if United have more points, it means they have more points, that's all. Nothing else. - Author: Rafael Benitez

#70. My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#71. It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#72. The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction. - Author: Rafael Correa

#73. Life's to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love's to rare to squnder it with petty concerns. The Apolloite groom to Rafael - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#74. That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#75. I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#76. I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#77. I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#78. Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#79. It's not how fast you go but how far you go fast. - Author: T. Rafael Cimino

#80. Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#81. Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. - Author: Rafael Cruz

#82. Most of this world's misery is the fruit not as priests tell us of wickedness, but of stupidity ...
And we know that of all stupidities he considered anger the most deplorable. - Author: Rafael Sabatini

#83. You're not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy's also having a hard time - the only question is who breaks down first. - Author: Rafael Eitan

#84. We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#85. The moments that followed were full of interest. A stillness, a brooding, expectant stillness, fell upon the company - and it numbered a round dozen - about Lord Gervase's richly appointed board. In the soft candlelight the oval table - Author: Rafael Sabatini

#86. As the poet says: We sing what we have lost. She's - Author: Rafael Chirbes

#87. Her husband, Rafael, who'd left her and who'd contributed not one penny to his children's welfare, was a fool of such dimensions that he should have been required to dress like a jester, complete with silly hat and curled-toe shoes. - Author: Dean Koontz

#88. The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle. - Author: T. Rafael Cimino

#89. You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#90. All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better. - Author: Rafael Soriano

#91. In every situation, there's never a shortage of people who will covertly promote their own best interest.. with diligence. - Author: T. Rafael Cimino

#92. I'm willing to keep an open mind about the existence of God or whether or not Joye's Ulysses is a great novel, but I have no doubt that one way or another child molesters are nurtured, not born. - Author: Rafael Yglesias

#93. If Gabriel is an ambassador, if Michael is a general, if Rafael is a healer and spiritual champion, then Uriel is a spymaster - Heaven's spook. - Author: Jim Butcher

#94. It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe. - Author: Rafael Nadal

#95. Far better to be in places where words do what you want them to and where blood doesn't smell because it's set down in ink on the page; history - Author: Rafael Chirbes

#96. But it would be safer for you to patrol Starkville first and then head back this way. (Celena)
And I was a pirate who laughed as he died and spat in the face of my killer. Safety's not my concern. (Rafael) - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#97. Also, serial killers, child killers, they're hot, they're the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody's favourite spook monster. - Author: Rafael Yglesias

#98. But he looks no more than thirty. He's very handsome
so much you will admit; nor will you deny that he is very wealthy and very powerful; the greatest nobleman in Brittany. He will make me a great lady.'
'God made you that, Aline. - Author: Rafael Sabatini

#99. But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here. - Author: Rafael Palmeiro

#100. I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate. - Author: Rafael Nadal