Nelson Rodrigues Quotes

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

Nelson Rodrigues

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• Sees

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• I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Beautiful
  • Enemy
  • Stone

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fear

• A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Revolutionary

• When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Know
  • Film
  • Nothing

• I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • People
  • Nice
  • Contact

• One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Enemy

• To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Different
  • You
  • Emotional

• It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Education
  • Fire

• I will open an era of grand national unity.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Will
  • Unity
  • Open

• There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Power

• Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Life
  • Cool

• I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don't have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.

  

  Bill Hader

• When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

  

  Celina Jade
  • Character
  • Know
  • Read

• The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Beautiful
  • First
  • Marilyn

• The Bible is a seemingly inexhaustible source of practical wisdom that could serve as a valuable resource for everyday living.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Wisdom
  • Bible
  • Everyday

• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• Sascha is an unbelievable player; he's going to be a champion. Hopefully, I can get there one day. Hopefully, I can get to his level. I mean, he's still better than me. But I'll keep working hard, and hopefully we could start a little bit of a rivalry.

  

  Denis Shapovalov
  • Player
  • Champion

• In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

  

  Nelson Rodrigues
  • Player
  • Blind
  • Ball