Top 111 Rico Quotes

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

If I’m performing in the United States, I’m able to speak Spanglish, and the crowd comprehends. If I’m in the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico, then I’m completely Spanish. I feel like a New Yorker that represents all Latinos.

I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you’re not in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico got too futuristic with the electronic reggaeton. It lost the essence of the reggae music.

The fight with Camacho is very attractive. It’s a natural fight, and one that Mexico, Puerto Rico and the world wants to see.

In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.

The common goals of Puerto Rico and the United States have always been for the benefit of both.

Global Force is creating a product that has people from independents, and guys who people know are good in their area, and they’ll take on guys from around the world in New Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia.

Since its inception, the American nation has had on its official seal the following motto: ‘e pluribus unum,’ which in Latin means, ‘from the many, one.’ That would change dramatically if Puerto Rico were to become a state.

I don’t think it’s fair that you can say I’m not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn’t born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.

My mother was born in Sinaloa, and she moved to Los Angeles when she was three years old. My father was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and moved here when he was 19. They met at the Palladium in Hollywood, and they’ve been together from that moment on.

My mom’s family is Russian Jewish, and my dad’s Puerto Rico Catholic, so it’s kind of a weird mix.

We are a possession of the United States. Congress has full authorization power over Puerto Rico.

What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.

You want a lesson? I’ll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father’s from Puerto Rico. My mother’s from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

It’s great to be Puerto Rican, because Puerto Rico loves boxing. They don’t have a lot of major sports down there.

While the American people have had a big heart, President Trump has had a big mouth, and he has used it to insult the people of Puerto Rico.

It’s an exciting feeling going to Puerto Rico. To go back where my dad was born, my bloodline, it means a lot to me to reach out to my fans in Puerto Rico.

When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful.

My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said to me, ‘I’m never going to cut your wings, so don’t let anyone else do that to you.’ That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday.

Many people think that Puerto Rico would be a Democratic state just by virtue of the inclination of the Latino population in the United States, but the reality is that I see Puerto Rico as a battleground state.

I’m not an immigrant – I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don’t know. So my whole life, I’ve identified as an American. There are times when I’ve gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I’m seen as the American cousin.

Puerto Rico is complicated. The people are complicated. The history is complicated. The story of the United States’ relationship to Puerto Rico is complicated.

Islands are going to suffer from climate change in very, very difficult ways. And it’s not just Pacific islands. It’s not just Puerto Rico.

I haven’t traveled in Africa nearly as much as I’d like to. I’ve been there a few times, and I’d like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that’s the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.

There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we’re quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

You’re not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

I have a home in Puerto Rico, and I see what is happening on the islands there.

I worked seven years in territories in Japan and Puerto Rico and worked my way up to the main events on those cards, then went to the WWF and spent a little while there before I got into the Intercontinental run and a main event runs with Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash.

There is no price tag on an American life – whether it’s in Florida, Texas, or Puerto Rico.

The majority of the people of Puerto Rico support commonwealth.

The 3.5 million people in Puerto Rico are American citizens. They deserve fair and equal treatment as Americans.

I think that Puerto Rico just has this calm and peace.

To look back and reflect on the career and sort of look at the seasons of it before I got to the WWF, working the territories and Japan and Texas, Puerto Rico, and then the WWF and WCW, then obviously the TNA years – it’s been quite a journey, I’ll say that.

The NFL has done a great job of promoting the popularity of the game. There now are youth leagues in Puerto Rico and Mexico. You’re starting to see more and more young men with Hispanic surnames come into the NFL and that’s a wonderful thing.

Coming from Puerto Rico and having that be my musical universe for the majority of my life no doubt strongly impacts my music.

I am second-generation American, and my grandparents are from Puerto Rico.

There are a lot of dope people in the DMV: WillThaRapper, Big Flock, GoldLink, Logic, IDK, Rico Nasty, Goonew and Q Da Fool. Seeing them get national attention motivated me to do my thing.

I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place – reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.

Immediately after hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, I was extremely concerned about my family, friends and all the people in Puerto Rico. I felt helpless and could not concentrate not knowing if my family and loved ones were safe. I wanted to help my people as fast as I could.

I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard.

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

I’m proud of who I am, and I’m proud I grew up in Puerto Rico.

Grant us more powers, not less; grant us more democracy, not less; grant us the tools to move forward because, I can assure you, Puerto Rico will move forward. We did it in the past; we will do it again.

The tropical island of Puerto Rico couldn’t be more different than America’s rust belt or the mountains of Appalachia, but here too live Americans who feel forgotten by our leaders and left behind by our economy.

I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.

I don’t have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico’s affairs.

Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.

After my homeland of Puerto Rico, Miami has been the most important city in my life and career.

Puerto Ricans are so well educated, they’re so capable, they’re so competent, but due to a lack of opportunity, when you graduate from college, you leave. Puerto Rico’s number one export is human beings; Puerto Ricans!

Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico’s political status, there are some who seek to block that path.

There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!

The reality is that we have a weakened energy infrastructure, and anything above a Category 3 hurricane hitting Puerto Rico would be devastating towards that infrastructure.

I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on the number one live comedy show in Puerto Rico. I told my parents, ‘I’m going to New York to become a performer.’ And I left.