Quotes About Brazil

I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.

I was playing in a tournament in Brazil and an agent scouted me. He took me to his soccer school. The idea was he used it to scout players and anyone he thought was good enough he took over to Italy. That's what he did with me when I was 15.

You can play happy-go-lucky football against Brazil in a friendly but not in a tournament.

A country the size of Brazil can't be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world.

They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen.

I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

Still, even after the black winger John Barnes scored his solo goal to beat Brazil in Rio in 1984, the Football Association's chairman was harangued by England fans on the flight back home: "You fucking wanker, you prefer sambos to us.

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

Here is a scene that happens in Brazil thousands of times each day: It's early morning. Time for young Marcos to leave for school. As he gathers his books and heads for the door, he stops by his father's chair. He looks into his father's face. "Benção, Pai?" (Blessing, Father?) Marcos asks. The father raises his hand. "Deus te abençoe, meu filho" (God bless you, my son), he says.

I was really shy when I was back in Brazil, so coming to Europe was very tough. I was arriving as a kid fresh from Brazil into a big team like Inter with a lot of star names.

The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.

After I signed for Man City, the people back home in Brazil congratulated me for signing for one of the top teams.

Bolsonaro must relax, I do not plan to shut down the economy. It's silly.

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

I'm against using Petrobras to combat inflation.

Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other American nation and was the last country in the hemisphere to abolish the institution, in 1888.

Brazil must resume and deepen Latin American integration.

1980s and declared "I'm very happy to be in Bolivia," it seemed to confirm all of our worst fears. Nothing stung Brazilian sensibilities more than not being properly recognized by the bigger and much richer continental giant in the hemisphere.

Bush nodded. "It sounds like you've got a real diverse country down there." "Oh, yes," I said. "We are truly a melting pot." I told him about all the immigration Brazil had from Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Japan, and so on. "We also have one of the world's largest populations of blacks, you know." "Do you have blacks in Brazil?" Bush asked.

We also saw that some countries, particularly Argentina and Brazil, had been able to accommodate foreign companies without ceding control over their national interests. We postulated, then, that poor countries in a position of "dependency" on the rich ones could take certain steps toward progress in spite of the existing system. All of this sounds quite elementary and obvious now, but in Latin America in 1968, these thoughts were borderline heresy.

There were many people, Brazilians included, who believed such a change was impossible. They saw Brazil as the incorrigible land of the jeitinho, the artful little trick for getting around the system. This word, and the concept behind it, were supposedly intractable parts of our national identity, the products of a society that took deep pride in flaunting the law.

Land distribution in Brazil is one of the most unfair in the world. One frequently cited statistic from the beginning of my presidency showed that 1 percent of the population controlled 45 percent of Brazil's arable land.

Victory arrived unexpectedly in June 2001, when a UN AIDS conference was due to open in New York. On that same day, the United States withdrew the complaint against Brazil from the WTO. I have no doubt that this favorable outcome was decisively influenced by global public opinion.