Andrea Pirlo Quotes

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

The fact is I do feel very Spanish, like when I'm talking to my wife and daughter in Spanish at two in the afternoon. I even think in Spanish when I get angry!

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

I think in French, but I get angry in Spanish.

Maybe in Latvian one day I'll rap a little bit, but definitely not in English.

At home we always converse in Oriya.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

Playing at Real Madrid is something special in itself, but winning trophies with Real Madrid is even more thrilling.

For a player or coach, there is nothing better than the World Cup.

There are lots of brilliant free kick specialists in the world. But the technique of Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham fascinates me most of all.

I consider myself to be half-Brazilian and half-German on the pitch.

To win the FA Cup - scoring the winner in the 2014 FA Cup was very nice.

I will continue to be a big fan of Manchester City, to whom I wish all the best and many more trophies and happiness in the future.

We know the FA Cup is important for the team and fans.

Everybody talks about the FA Cup being special, and now I know from personal experience it is really special to be involved in.

For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.