Quotes About Nationality

I'm basically a homegrown American.

My home is here in Manchester now but my family home is in Brazil. With Belgium I feel like I have three homes.

I'm very proud to represent my hometown, my country.

Let's be honest. Canada wasn't ever cool.

Of course, there is no greater honour than to captain your own country.

To put on an England shirt to represent your country is a great honour. That feeling never changes.

I've always said that when you pull on an England shirt, it's a proud moment, and it's an honour to play for and represent your country.

The fact that I can unfurl the Indian flag the world over is the biggest honour.

A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.

New Zealanders can be a little hostile.

I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

Even as an Argentinian, I've been very clear in my attitude towards France: I've always had a huge amount of respect toward a country that took me in and gave me so much.

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

English people have a great sense of humour.

When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.

My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself 'the American' at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.

Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.

Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.

Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.

We need to start from a presupposition: namely, that there is no 'better' football and no 'worse' kind of football, just different styles and cultures that belong to each country.