Brazil Quotes · Page 11

When you talk about Brazil, we're always going to have high-level players trying to find a place to play.

— Gabriel Jesus

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're…

— Edward Snowden

Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport.

— Marta

It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.

— Lionel Messi

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

— Janio Quadros

Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

— Lawrence Durrell

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

— John Motson

My home is here in Manchester now but my family home is in Brazil. With Belgium I feel like I have three…

— Andreas Pereira

Playing alongside Messi is special for me. He's a player I always wanted to play with. I have played against him with…

— Paulinho

My first MMA fight was July 2006 here in Brazil. I won a few fights here in Brazil, and then I got…

— Junior dos Santos

Neymar is undoubtedly the best player in Brazil. He deserves to play in the best team in the world; next to the…

— Pele

The coach should keep out of the way... He is an important figure, of course, but is more likely to lose a…

— Romario

After Victor Paz's government, I was still in politics, but I personally spent a lot of time consulting and working with Argentina,…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood…

— Malcolm X

Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a…

— Rainn Wilson

No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou.…

— Neymar

For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting…

— Astrud Gilberto

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew…

— Jose Padilha

If you don't have that science and technology and brains as an input, as you don't have in large parts of Latin…

— Juan Enriquez

I love collard greens and sweet potatoes. But like, traveling, I'm always just looking for that thing where you feel like there's…

— Neneh Cherry

There are many promotions in Russia, and they are taking Brazilians to fight there. We need to do something about the Brazilian…

— Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where…

— Al Jourgensen

During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard…

— Michael Franti

The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa…

— George Orwell

I really love history. When I was a little kid in Brazil, it was my favorite subject in school. I always did…

— Max Cavalera

Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.

— Zygmunt Bauman

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

— Jeremy Rifkin

Brazil is really special. The fans are awesome and I love the food there.

— Beneil Dariush

I have always said that to manage Brazil I would have to be managing in Brazil first.

— Zico

In Miami, you can walk in the street and see people. It's like Brazil.

— Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

— Emerson Fittipaldi

He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most…

— Pele

Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

— Neymar

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes…

— Henry Louis Gates

I decided to play for Portugal because I was convinced I had no chance of playing for Brazil.

— Deco

In Brazil, there's the beach, there's partying. It's hard to be focused.

— Mackenzie Dern

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

— Nelson Rodrigues

The Italians - they cannot talk without shaking the hands. And I am like that, I'm from Brazil as well.

— Felipe Massa

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

— Michel Patini

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.

— Truman Capote