Top 131 Argentina Quotes

I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I’m careful around them. You never know what they’re going to do. They’re endlessly interesting. I’ve had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

I have two younger sisters, and during those first four years when I was in Argentina, I wasn’t around to see them grow up. It was very hard for all of us because missing out on that period and not seeing them grow up was tough for me.

The problem is that when Argentina doesn’t play well – and the same is true of Barcelona – the press think it is easy to blame Messi. We have seen time and time again that he wins games on his own when the team is not performing – but the media expect him to always be the hero.

Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur. And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full Arab League has voiced its support.

I love Argentina because I was born there, and there are some gorgeous places to visit there.

People talk about how many goals I score, how I play, how I move on the field. In Argentina, on the other hand, they’re always digging for dirt, and they continue to talk about me as the husband of Wanda Nara, that guy who stole the woman and ruined the life of a former teammate, when it was never actually like that.

Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.

That is the problem we have in Argentina: we do not sit down and think.

Mauricio Pochettino – he was my captain at PSG and I always knew he would become a manager. He has taken a lot of influence from Marcelo Bielsa, who was his coach with Argentina; they used to talk about things a lot, and now you can see that his teams are really aggressive, both when attacking and defending.

That desire to win is something that’s drummed into you at an early age in my country. In Argentina, you grow up watching great teams and important victories.

Without much money, I traveled to Argentina to see the meat industry, and after that, I wanted to travel to the United States, but I was refused a visa 5 or 6 times, but I never gave up.

As a manager, I won eight trophies in Chile, Ecuador, and Argentina.

A World Cup without Argentina isn’t good.

Argentines must know that any commitment I made is an ethical commitment. We are going to build a solidarity and egalitarian Argentina that everybody dreams.

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team – not just on me.

At some point, I would like to coach Argentina, but I have to improve as a coach. I would like to do it in the final stretch of my career.

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age of 15. My mother was a teacher, herself the daughter of a poor immigrant family.

A World Cup without Argentina and without Messi would be a catastrophe.

You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon.

If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye.

Everybody in Argentina can remember ‘the hand of God’ in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the ‘hand of God’ has brought us an Argentinian pope.

Perhaps Argentina have been benefited by the talent of Messi.

Maradona has done a lot for his clubs, as Messi does, and for the Argentina national team.

I am just one of many who have played their part in Argentina’s football history.

Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.

Well, Argentina has a big idols in soccer, in different sport. I’m just doing my job, trying to be an example for the kids, to teach them that you have to do effort to get your goals in your life.

I don’t spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I’ve ever been is Argentina.

I would not be worried about the physical aspect of the Premier League. I have scored goals in Argentina, Portugal, and now Spain. I am confident I can adapt my game to any league.

I always see Argentina with great players.

I do not have to return to Argentina because I feel more like a European player. Here I came very young and I left my country at 22.

It would be spectacular if I could be the top scorer and win the World Cup with Argentina.

Messi is an ambassador of Argentina, and I am also proud of him as an Argentine.

Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract – if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations.

Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.

During a university gap year in Argentina I got a job presenting for MTV, and in my final year I was doing bits and pieces for them in London and at ITN. Then, when I graduated, MTV asked if I wanted to be a runner. I said: ‘Absolutely!’

Imitation is flattery. There was once a survey of who was the most imitated celebrity in Latin American countries, especially in Brazil and Argentina, and I was in third place after Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

People are saying: ‘the Argentina uniform should not be stained.’ Forget about it. The Argentina uniform is already pretty stained.

Argentina is ready to take its place. Its a big country with a lot of talent.

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.

I don’t think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.

I remember one director in Argentina said to me, ‘You are not going to have any opportunity to be a leading lady because of your height.’ And I didn’t care. I don’t have a complex.

The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.

I was happy to be in the Argentina league. Then I started to play slowly, and I went to Italy and I started in the second division.

When you’ve played at a club like River, who are a massive, massive club in Argentina – and Roma, the same, in Italy – you learn how to deal with the pressure. After that, you can live with anything.

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn’t been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

When I was 13, we went back to Argentina to live for a year. I got to see my extended family – really see them: where they grew up, how they lived. It was a different kind of struggle. There is no money. There are no jobs. And they still have to find a way to feed their families.

Brazil versus Argentina is always a great game, with great football and scoring chances.

My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.

My best World Cup memory as a fan? The Michael Owen goal against Argentina at the 1998 World Cup in France.

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

I don’t know if it’s because my father’s from Argentina, that I’m the son of an immigrant, I don’t know if its because I’m Jewish, but I have always been mindful that the best insights occur when you have some kind of an outsider perspective.

I’m very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.

I wear the Argentina jersey with all the values I learned from my home and growing through football.

My dad had a dream of living in an Irish castle, even when we were in Argentina, and in 1960 he found a place without any heat or running water. We had no money, so it was tough.