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Quotes About Roma

I was at Roma for two years, had two great seasons there, and everyone told me to stay, but it was in my mind to come and be successful in England.
~ Mohamed Salah
Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.
~ Francesco Totti
Alisson is a top-class goalkeeper, from what I've seen. He performed brilliantly for Roma, and for Brazil as well.
~ Kasper Schmeichel
Recordó que siempre había deseado que Aníbal ganase. Había algo repelente en la avaricia fría y falta de imaginación de Roma. Y allí estaba, intentando salvar una ciudad. La vida resultaba una extraña ocupación.
~ Poul Anderson
I made a professional decision, a step forward in my career and for Roma, who earned a huge sum.
~ Alisson
Por lo tanto, un relato inventado por Marcos, con propósitos estrictamente evangelizadores, para absolver a Roma de toda culpa por la muerte de Jesús, se amplía hasta el punto del absurdo, convirtiéndose con el transcurso del tiempo en la base para dos mil años de antisemitismo cristiano.
~ Reza Aslan
I have lots of experience in three clubs: I was at Chelsea, then Fiorentina, and then Roma. I have good experience.
~ Mohamed Salah
I don't think it's fair comparing Barcelona's style with that of Roma.
~ Bojan Krkic
The one team I would not like to play is Roma. I played there for so long and I admire the club and the crowd, so I don't want to play against them.
~ Cafu
Here is this! Here is this! Ecco Roma! Bursting out of the sun, streaking through space, skirting Venus, just over eight minutes old, but eternal, too, infinite—here comes the light, nameless and intangible, streaming 93 million unobstructed miles through the implacable black vacuum to break itself against a wall, a cornice, a column. It drenches, it crenellates, it textures.
~ Anthony Doerr
Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen.
~ Traian Basescu
Milan-Roma games were especially tense. Roma fans loved to sing, to the tune of Il sole mio – 'I have only one dream/Milan in flames'. Milan's fans replied with irony: 'Milan in flames? And where will you work?
~ John Foot
If I hadn't had the guarantee of playing, I would have asked to leave Roma.
~ Alisson
Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.
~ Traian Basescu
There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.
~ Evgeny Morozov
but I remained bouncy and immune throughout – by the early eighteenth century the Electors' tombs are entirely out of control and indeed strongly anticipatory of the fine moment in Fellini's Roma where the Vatican holds an excitingly modern ecclesiastical fashion show featuring neon-clad, roller-skating priests and entire reliquary skeletons of saints hanging like the Andrews Sisters from the sides of a jeep. Just
~ Simon Winder
Unfortunately, you need to keep Italian Roma in Italy.
~ Matteo Salvini
The biggest memory I have is the 1984 European Cup final against Roma and my 'spaghetti legs' routine during the penalty shoot-out that won us the trophy. People said I was being disrespectful to their players, but I was just testing their concentration under pressure. I guess they failed that test.
~ Bruce Grobbelaar
No city is conquered unless its people have offended the gods; for the conquerors to kill or enslave the inhabitants is pleasing to the gods. The people of Roma have always known this. The humiliation of our enemies is one of the ways by which we please the gods, and by pleasing the gods, we continue to prosper.
~ Steven Saylor
Lucius laughed. "No one serves in the military to defend Roma: Roma is not under attack. Men join the legions to head for the outskirts of the empire and look for fresh lands to plunder. It's all about looting, isn't it? All the successful emperors looted something and brought the booty back to Roma.
~ Steven Saylor
I've followed Roma because my friend Miralem Pjanic is here. It's a great club. I have a good relationship with Miralem.
~ Edin Dzeko
Guardiola signed for Roma in the summer of 2002, motivated less by the opportunity to play for a bigger club than to be coached by, and to learn from, Fabio Capello, a manager he greatly admires despite their differing approach to the game. Pep was eager to experience Capello's defensive rigour and discover his secrets in terms of how to apply pressure upon an opponent.
~ Guillem Balagué
After three years with Roma, I spent two seasons at Fiorentina. I could have stayed there for longer, but they only had ambitions to be in the middle of the table - not to win anything. Their ambition was to not go down.
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
~ Edmund Phelps