Words matter. These are the best Croatia Quotes from famous people such as Bojan Bogdanovic, Luka Modric, Goran Ivanisevic, Toni Kukoc, Sebastian Junger, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I worked a lot with my personal coaches in Croatia. That helped me to play on that level in the Olympics.
Of course it is very important for me to play for Croatia, however different it is to play at club level.
Although we didn’t have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.
Like everybody coming from Europe, I didn’t believe it at first, but you really need time to adjust. I thought it was going to be like going from Croatia to Italy. But you really need the time just to understand things here.
I try to help people looking for food and money and clothes. I have done some radio transmissions here in Italy to tell people the truth about Croatia.
The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo’s status.
I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy… and then I did Spain and France by myself.
Being in America isn’t old-hat – it’s where we’re from – but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I’m a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I’m into that kind of thing.
PepsiCo is the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States, and the second-largest in the world after Nestle. If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy – sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 – would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia.
Playing against Croatia would be a dream come true.
Croatia has been glorious – it’s so beautiful, and I want to go back as often as I can.
It was really tough back then in Croatia to watch the NBA games because we were not that powerful of a country. They didn’t even show the games on TV. So we were always trying to find someway to watch the games, especially the Finals.
It would be a dream if I was able to fight in Croatia.
My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
I just go home or on vacation, or together because Croatia is nice.
I promised my mother that I’d be a famous footballer one day after seeing players such as Croatia’s Davor Suker and Serbia’s Predrag Mijatovic shine in France.
I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn’t expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would’ve expected that and the food, I guess you’re learning something about me, the food in Prague, they’re very, very heavy meat eaters, like, a lot of meat, which is great.
I had to move out when I was 14 and live by myself in the capital of Croatia. That’s when it got a little serious. From there, I played on the Croatian national team.
There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
Expectations run immensely high in Croatia. We may only be a small country, but people expect us to be our best at every major tournament.
I’ve lived for two years in Croatia, one year in Japan, Brazil, Spain, and all those different countries.
When you put the sacred Croatia shirt on, you become another person. We have this togetherness, this unique unity – not just in football. We are exceptional in tennis, handball, basketball, water polo. If we were to hold a tournament in ping pong, all of us would be rooting for that single player.
In Italy, my wife and I always said we feel like strangers because there’s maybe only a couple other people from other parts of the world. Here in Chicago, there’s millions of people from Poland, thousands from Japan, hundreds from Croatia. We like it here.
Croatia is an amazing place.
Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia’s participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.
