In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
It’s unbelievable. I changed the way Barcelona played. Now, Spain have had to change.
The only problem is that there are a lot of people here in Catalonia who want to separate from Spain and a lot of people who don’t want to. We are talking about 50-50, more or less, and that is why it is difficult.
I had plenty of opportunities before I went to Spain to stay in England, and I had made a decision that I would go and work in Spain.
In England, the club presidents do not seek publicity or have a high profile. In Spain, they like to be considered the most important person at the club.
I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
I think the Spanish way is the philosophy is similar to mines and in Spain they are very good at coaching young players for the team.
I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and in Spain. My family now lives in Spain. I moved to New York when I was 19 years old and I have lived here ever since. For me, I feel like I have spent 10 years sharing that story over and over again. And now it seems like it’s not enough.
I would be happy to go back to Spain at the right moment.
When you want to make it clear to the rest of the world that you are not an imperialist, the best countries to have with you are Britain and Spain.
Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent.
We were doing a gig in Spain and yet again had four hotel rooms that never get used. We always share a bed. So we’re all in bed together and we’ve all got wind. And we thought it would be funny to put it on Instagram. Farting on cue.
I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.
In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.
In society and in football in Spain, achievements are not always appreciated or valued.
I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is thus everywhere and nowhere. There are a number of sites connected with his life, but none attract hordes of travellers the way Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre in London draw Shakespeare aficionados.
When I went to Spain two years ago, I only knew three Valencia players. I didn’t know anything about La Liga, and within six months, I knew everything. I was speaking another language and knew everything about the game, so I am a fast learner.
In Spain you can’t do anything. If you drive, everyone recognises you; at a restaurant you have paparazzi outside.
Spain are a fantastic team and fantastic squad of players.
Fundamentally, England, Spain and Germany were the relevant leagues I could see myself playing football in.
Italy and Spain really are not my countries.
For me, it is all about the bigger picture and what is right for England. I haven’t enjoyed watching us play in all our games, but away in Germany, against Spain and Germany at home, I’ve enjoyed the performance.
If we in Spain had fans like in England, it would be the best League without doubt. And the live football, in the stadiums, the people live for it.
I am not a politician in prison, I am a political prisoner who uses jail to denounce Spain’s human rights violations.
Iran doesn’t need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don’t enrich uranium. You don’t need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.
In Barcelona, Bayern Munich, in Spain and Germany we were able to do it. But people say, ‘You only did it because you were in Barcelona and Bayern Munich. You will not be able to do it in England.’ So, let’s do it. We are going to try.
In Europe, you are taught to keep the ball out of the net any way possible. That’s why Germany and Spain have the best goalkeepers in the world. They give young goalkeepers a chance and accept they are going to make mistakes. Long term, that will reap huge rewards.
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.
Spain’s constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco’s dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our right to vote.
Pau Gasol is extremely popular in Spain. I don’t know how much he sells, but I get nothing in Spain. The money goes to the league, and they use it for whatever they choose to use it for to run the league.
You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don’t see that in Italy or Spain. It’s not because they can’t afford to buy them, it’s because that’s not what eating together as a family is about.
When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
Two prominent terms, ‘Latino’ and ‘Hispanic,’ refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.
I know from my Real Madrid team-mates Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira and my family in Andalucia that people look up to me in Spain.
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
I like to watch the top teams in different countries, like Spain or Bayern Munich in Germany. The rest I don’t watch. I have nothing to do with that. I’m not a freak. I know guys who watch every game. I’m not like that.
I think the most important goal I scored in Spain was the first one because people were wary about me coming over to Spain as a player – they thought I was just there to sell shirts.
I like a lot of sports. Especially football – it’s my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
In Spain, people understand football is a fun game, and enjoyment comes first. After that, business follows.
I like California wine, I really like wines from Washington state. I love wines from Spain and Italy. I don’t know about French wines at all.
If I decide to leave Bayern Munich, it will be for a Spanish club. I have to think about what my family wants as well and my wife would be delighted to move to Spain. She doesn’t like all the rain and snow and is reluctant to go to England.
The difference in economic potential between clubs in Italy, those in England, or the big two in Spain is very high.
About Mali, they came to my house. We spoke and after that, the guy posed for a picture giving me a Mali shirt. With Spain I didn’t go because I was injured. When the time comes, you will see which team I decide.
If you come from Spain, you have to play football.
Visiting Spain does not excite me as much as making my parents proud does.
The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he’s a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.
After Wings I did a lot of recording rather than live work. I even went into a kind of semi-retirement to places like Spain at one point.
When I left Spain, I had it very clear in my mind that I would return one day.
After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.
Spain is such a competitive league, and for the players to give up La Liga, it’s such a tough decision.
Spain always go into a tournament with the idea of performing the best we can.
In Spain, they’re never direct, and that frustrates me.
Sometimes you have an exceptional international team, such as Spain in 2010, but club football is better.
If we were the problem, it would be very convenient – kick Greece out, everything’s fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.
The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin’s Russia: it’s like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
I have so many miles and I’ve been flying for so long that every time I fly, it’s first class. It’s one of those things that, if I needed to jump on a plane, and fly to Spain tomorrow, I know I could get it done. Just like that.
