My first year in Miami, I didn’t even know it was sunny during the winter.
I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I’ve been there in my head many times. I think someday I will see it, when things are different there, but I’ve come to feel like I really am a Miami girl.
We all know what it means to be a Miami Heat player, the passion and the dedication it takes to be a part of this culture. And I always felt like if I ever got an opportunity to play here, then I would fit in perfect.
You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.
Miami will always be special to me.
I come from Carol City. The city renamed it Miami Gardens.
Just to be able to say that I’m from Miami, Florida, in the Winter Olympics was an honor, and I’m proud to be able to say that I’m playing on the U.S. national team for baseball from Miami as a Cuban-American.
The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence – places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
Miami was always traditionally known as America’s gateway to Latin America.
I not only have to take care of each and every one of the residents of the city of Miami, but I also have to think about all the cities in America and how do we create prosperity for all those cities.
Everybody rips on Miami fans all of the time. We’re a loving people. You know, we like to go out and we like to party and we like our sports and entertainment.
Jews don’t care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.
I educated myself and came back to Miami after law school, got married, and started a business.
Miami is the place where all great Medicare fraud schemes come from. It has a great concentration of professional criminals and old people.
I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.
I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with ‘CSI: Miami.’
We’ve been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn’t have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.
I didn’t like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn’t like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.
If you had asked me what I wanted when I was 12 years old, I probably would have said, ‘To marry a plastic surgeon.’ You can hardly blame me: I was growing up in Miami.
‘The Real Housewives of Miami’ only shows my life in Miami, and, to be honest, my life is more L.A.
I became the face of the franchise in Miami, and I don’t think they wanted me to be that. The respect was just never there.
When I was coming up in Miami, the music in the city at the time sounded completely different. I loved it, but it just wasn’t the type of music I wanted to make. I wanted my wordplay to be more sophisticated. I wanted the sound to be more lush. I wanted my music to sound like who I was and aspired to be – boss.
The drag scene in Miami has always been top notch to me.
I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week – every Saturday night.
I’m Cuban and Puerto Rican and Miami is very Cuban oriented. Growing up around the music – all of the salsa and meringue influenced me as an artist. I find myself gravitating to latin influences, sounds.
I have an art-school background, not a fashion background where it’s like, ‘Oh, we’re going on holiday to Miami.’
Miami is one of the cities you could party all night to the next day.
I think Kentucky really prepared me for Miami.
There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we’ll be on top after all is said and done.
Five years before ‘Port of Miami,’ I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting… the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to.
My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I’m working on the things that are important to me.
I love San Francisco; it’s very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can’t replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time.
Miami is a remarkably resilient, opportunistic team.
I just like cars, period. I can find something to like about pretty much any car. I’ve had as much fun whipping around Italy in a little Mini Cooper as I’ve had whipping through Miami in a Bentley GT.
You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you’re gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it’s in Vegas.
I’m very comfortable here. I enjoy all aspects of it. This is a place I want to make a stamp and bring something that Miami hasn’t seen before.
I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.
The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you’re in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
I got a part-time job as a cashier at Home Depot in North Miami Beach on April 1, 1985. I didn’t expect to be in retail all my life, but retail was ingrained in me from my grandmother. I enjoyed interacting with people, and I got opportunities.
From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They’re the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
Nowadays, kids need promises to play. And I’m not gonna lie, I almost went to Mississippi. But that’s the best thing I did, when I changed my mind and went to Miami.
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami.
I DJ’d and sang at Miami Basel 2013.
Miami fans have got a terrible reputation around the national media, and I think it’s very unfair.
I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.
I think it’s important to remain true to myself, but ultimately the Miami Heat and what it stands for is part of me. It’s part of my fabric.
I’ve said so many things in so many press conferences that caused problems. There’s been incidents with police and arrests in Miami. Obviously, I did these things and I regret them. Now I’m keen to show people a different side to my personality.
Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you’re in the United States of America. You would certainly say you’re in a Third World country.
In recent years, our planet has been warming at an alarming rate and seen record-breaking temperatures. We are now witnessing the sixth mass extinction event in the earth’s geologic history. Our sea levels are rising at an alarming rate, threatening our largest cities, like New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.
Goldie has been around a lot longer than his gold teeth, than the golden locks. Not many people know me. He was a Rastafarian… They know Goldie the player, like my boys in Miami, or Goldie the graffiti writer, or Goldie the guy on the estate with the gold teeth, but nobody really knows that little boy from school, you know?
I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.
The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.
It’s great to work with a group from Miami.
I’ve always felt that Miami is part of my DNA.
For me, my friends, my family, myself, we all grew up as Bucks fans just being in the hometown. I think my friends have converted into Miami Heat fans and I’ve done the same obviously. We’re not too big on Milwaukee anymore.
I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don’t know yet.
In 2007, Prince performed at the halftime of the Super Bowl. The stage in Miami was wreathed in purple light, and it poured during his performance, so that he played ‘Purple Rain’ in a purple rain.
What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.
Miami has been my second home for 15 years, so I look forward to spending more and more time here as co-owner of Miami FC, giving my enthusiastic contribution for its success.
