Quotes About Nationality

If you call a Brazilian out publicly, you're going to be fighting that Brazilian. That's in their culture.

Puerto Ricans are United States citizens, and I think that the issue of statehood or independence needs to be addressed and needs to be resolved.

I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican.

My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal.

A lot of people say things because I wasn't born here, but in my heart, I know that I am a true Puerto Rican champion.

I am a Puerto Rican. I could have been born on the moon, but I'm still Puerto Rican.

I'm such a true Puerto Rican.

My dad was born in Cuba and my mother's family is Puerto Rican. But my parents are both extremely proud to be American citizens, and they raised me to take pride in being from this country.

Some people wanted me deported - as if you can be deported to Puerto Rico.

I don't think it's fair that you can say I'm not a Puerto Rican fighter because I wasn't born in Puerto Rico, when my blood is Puerto Rican.

I'm a baseball fan. I always pulled for where the Dominican players play.

It's been such a special feeling pulling on that Scotland jersey since I was 16 years old.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

As an Olympian, I wear that flag and I've gone all over the world. I've represented the United States, so I have a deep pride for our flag.

I represent Brazil with the flag and the belt.

I speak fluent Kosovan.

I'm so Filipino. I'm fluent in Filipino.

I like to see the flag up flying proudly. When I'm in space I represent that flag.

Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

Definitely, it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia.

If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.

I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.