Leonardo Bonucci Quotes

The national team means you have the nation behind it.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

The national team comes before everything.

Our country has been through some difficult moments recently in terms of its unity. But sport can unite.

The national team has always lent its image to help Italy's problems over the years... The national team is more about uniting than dividing.

It would be helpful if broadcasters were willing to be a bit patriotic.

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

Our belief in ourselves as a nation will perish.

Jolt a country’s pride and even the reformers will support the nation

… if we are a national party, it must be, as I think, because we profess a truly national creed.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.

I've always said that there's a bit of a different sense of pride when you're playing for your national team.

To play for the national team is the most beautiful thing there is.

We can remember what brings us together as a country.

When the national team plays, everyone feels a part of it. Everyone comes together. And when Italians come together, we tend to do well.