Barcelona Quotes - Page 2

• I am an Arsenal player and I don't think about anything else. I'm not going to say no to anybody, nor am I going to say yes to anybody. I did not say that I was going to leave Arsenal to go to Barcelona, because equally Barcelona doesn't want me.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Player, Thinking, Want

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• I never wanted to or expected to make a film outside of New York. New York became very, very expensive. The same $18 million spent in Barcelona or Rome goes much further there.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Rome, Film

  "Filmmaking Woody Allen's way". Interview, www.stuff.co.nz. June 25, 2012.

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• Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. In Los Angeles, it is quite the opposite: it is an older city than it might seem to be, but you don't perceive this -- every day you get out of your home, you are driving somewhere and sometimes you get this impression that everything was put there the night before.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Home, Night, Opposites

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• You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hard Times, Choices, Want

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• If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Problem, Hated

  "Mourinho unveiled as Real Madrid coach" by Cindy Garcia-Bennett, www.independent.co.uk. May 31, 2010.

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• And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

  Julie Burchill

  Pigs, Doors, Dinner

  "Chill factors". www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi.

  Marco van Basten

  Player, Messi, World

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• It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

  Woody Allen

  Contradiction

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• 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

  Beach, Husband, Book

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Vacation, Sound, Half

  "Listen: New Walkmen: 'Heaven'". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2012.

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• To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I dont think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.

  Marv Albert

  Sports, Dream, Team

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• Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid’s history

  Marco Reus

  Real, Madrid, Barca

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  Carl Honore

  Airplane, Journey, Lunch

  "Recession? The Perfect Time to Slow Down" by Carl Honoré, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2008.

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• I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

  Luis Figo

  Thinking, Size, Fees

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• When I'm not working out, playing football or working with Vita Coco, I'm a video game nerd. I love playing video games. I'm really good at FIFA. I'm not one of those guys that uses Barcelona or Real Madrid to win. My skills are real, so I don't need a loaded team to dominate. You don't want to play me in FIFA.

  Giovani Bernard

  Football, Real, Team

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• I was disappointed not to be able to sign [for Barcelona] last season. When the best club in the world calls you, then it is something that you want to happen. I have signed for the only club who really wanted me. In no moment did I ever think that Inter was a possibility. Rafa valued me and perhaps that is why people started saying that I could go there but this is the only club that pushed to sign me.

  Javier Mascherano

  Thinking, People, World

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• 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

  Real, Team, Player

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• My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

  Eric Cantona

  Mother, Father, Parent

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• Best ever was filming in Barcelona last year, and I had a couple of scenes with De Niro. He's a very shy man. Speaks so quietly that people tend to bend down and adopt the same tone, almost the same voice, whenever they talk to him - watching, you'd think someone's offering to carry out a hit for him when they're just offering him a cup of coffee.

  Toby Jones

  Couple, Coffee, Men

  "Toby Jones: ' So Robert de Niro booked us a table at El Bulli'". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

  Xavi

  Football, Heart, Birth Place

  "I'm a romantic, says Xavi, heartbeat of Barcelona and Spain". Interview with Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• 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

  Real, Player, Goal

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• I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.

  Tom Dunne

  Soccer, New Year, Football

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• Did you used to play for Barcelona? Because that's not Barcelona football.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• That was a frustrating race for me. I pushed as hard as possible at the start on the medium tyres whilst everyone around me was on the grippier soft compound rubber. Once I moved to the soft tyres I was able to set the race's then fastest lap so things looked good with our strategy. Unfortunately the engine anti-kill triggered when I came in to make my final pit stop which cost me a lot of time. It's frustrating as we should have finished strongly. My focus is now Barcelona where I've delivered very strongly in the past.

  Pastor Maldonado

  Past, Race, Should Have

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