I’ve no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it’s a great culture. People respect you more; it’s more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
What’s funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.
I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I’ve worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.
Playing for England in Spain was really hard but racism is still in the game, which it shouldn’t be. I think when you’re playing the best thing to do is block it out like you do with everything else.
I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star’s salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.
I came to Spain to play and get more time on the pitch.
My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there’s maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: ‘Don Quixote’ contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.
Spain and England have great leagues, and it would be nice to play there when the time comes.
The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
A coach I had in Spain, Scott Roth, he used to call me Zinger. He would yell at me all the time, ‘Zinger!’ It’s just stuck in my head that I don’t like that name.
The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.
I’ve played against Griezmann several times in Spain. He’s not very tall but he’s very adept at figuring out where the ball will be.
All my life is in Spain. I will stay.
Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand’s philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.
My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me – when I move, when I do everything – are Brazilian because my family is Brazilian, and my mother language is Brazilian Portuguese. But all the thinking in my life, all the treatment with people, I think I’m more from Spain. That’s how I grew up.
It’s not easy to say no to a club like Barcelona. They are European champions, they’re in a lovely city, and I like Spain a lot.
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
If I return to Spain someday, Atletico Madrid would be one of my top choices without doubt. It is a club that I have a lot of affection for.
On any measure, Spain’s bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country’s credit rating has been downgraded three notches.
I’ve been working at performing for five years now. I’ve been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it’s also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
Maybe the press in Spain do not like me because I do not give interviews.
There is nothing nicer than playing in a World Cup against France, England, or Spain. There is nothing nicer than instead of playing a friendly, you can play a game where, if you win, you can make history.
I was shooting for ‘Heart Attack’ in Spain when Trivikram Srinivas garu called me up and told me that we will do a film together.
When I was growing up, in this country, I would use the name Hillary and in Spain, I would use the name Hilaria.
Obviously, culturally, England’s style of play is a lot more direct and physical. In Spain, they’re a lot more patient, and they have the ball a lot more.
My maternal great-grandfather Don Juan del Gallego was a Spanish adventurer from Asturias, Spain. He sailed on a galleon ship to the Philippines. He then went to the Bicol region to build a town that eventually became known as Del Gallego.
When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.
I moved to Spain, and at all the tournaments I’d play, I would be really good in my age. That made me realize that I could be a pro.
I am flattered Serbia are interested in me and for the great effort they are making. But I am Spanish and my desire is to play for Spain.
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
The thing to keep in mind is that we’re still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there’s a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, ‘Nothing out there!’
I was born in Spain, I know the culture there, and lived most of my life there, but I have Malian origins too. For me it’s a beautiful thing that I can have both. I can be in both countries, speak the language, blend in in two cultures.
On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.
What’s the problem that people have here in Spain with Maradona and Messi? They spend the whole day comparing them.
There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There’s a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in a more serious way.
In England, you might have a possession game of six v. six, and it’s like headless chickens: people running around everywhere just trying to keep the ball and be strong in tackles. But in Spain, you always stay in your position. You’re still in your shape for every drill.
I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you’re a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.
My wife would like to live in Spain; I’d like to live in Italy.
I spoke to Mali and they understand; I’ve never lived there and I never said I was going there, my intention was always to play with Spain.
In Spain, when we’re successful, we’re on the front page of the newspaper. Every newspaper. But when we lose, we’re slated, the same as the men. That’s the level the game is at.
Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
I flew to Malaga once and instead of going left to Marbella, turned right and went to Nerja. I wanted to get as far away from the British as possible, which is tough to do in Spain, but Nerja is slightly less infested and I loved the local culture there and the food.
I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we’d win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.
I love Spain. It’s my favorite country that I’ve been to and I’ve traveled quite a bit. I’ve been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.
English football is a lot different to Spanish football but Soldado is an international for Spain, he is a player who has become accustomed to playing against great teams – and he has always scored goals.
Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.
I hope things go phenomenally well for Spain and for Luis Enrique. I’m a fervent supporter of the national team.
If you go to Spain and ask, ‘Who has the best goalkeepers?’ they will say, ‘The Spanish.’ If you go to Germany, they will say German goalkeepers, and Italy the same. You go to England and they say, ‘God knows!’
Obviously, Spain is my home, and I have everything here – family, friends – but I’m very happy in England, with the way of life we have and with English football.
I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while.
