Adolfo Quotes & Sayings

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. — Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Here in Argentina, it is easy to practice and play because we have the horses, the land, the players - everything. — Adolfo Cambiaso

Pressure brings out the best in me. It's the only way to keep improving: putting a bit of pressure on yourself. — Adolfo Cambiaso

The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only thing that has changed for me. — Adolfo Cambiaso

I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it. — Adolfo Cambiaso

Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward ... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started. — Adolfo Suarez

As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry! — Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon. — Adolfo Cambiaso

Intuition is what makes the best players. — Adolfo Cambiaso

I will never be a millionaire, and I don't want to be. — Adolfo Cambiaso

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players. — Adolfo Cambiaso

I am very happy with my life, but seven or eight months a year, I am away from home. I want to go home - that's the truth. — Adolfo Cambiaso

To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost). — Adolfo Bioy Casares

I believe in enjoying the game. If you make it too much work, that's not good. — Adolfo Cambiaso

The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures ... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Everybody is talking about the Triple Crown, but I want to win the Open. That is my aim. — Adolfo Cambiaso

I thought I had made this discovery: that there are unexpected, constant repetitions in our behavior. The right combination of circumstances had enabled me to observe them. One seldom has the chance to be a clandestine witness of several talks between the same people. But scenes are repeated in life, just as they are in the theatre. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

The influence of the future on the past, said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

I just play, that's all. When I'm in the field, I always connect with what I'm doing. I can't explain it. I can't control it. It just happens. — Adolfo Cambiaso

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States. — Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player. — Adolfo Cambiaso

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Spontaneity is the mother of crudity. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

I want to finish high school, but that will be it. — Adolfo Cambiaso

The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening? — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

jimi & and me — Adolfo Bioy Casares

I've always helped polo to grow. — Adolfo Cambiaso

We believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their desire for change and profound democratization of society. A change based on justice, built with love, and which will bring us the most anxiously desired fruits of peace. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

The best decisions are taken quickly and well. You can prepare yourself, have all aspects of the game thought through, but the one who shines on the pitch is the one with intuition. — Adolfo Cambiaso

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is. — Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know. — Adolfo Perez Esquivel

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo. — Adolfo Cambiaso

If you have the right horses and the right team, that's the way to succeed. But you have to work, and you have to improve. Every year, you must get better. — Adolfo Cambiaso

People love nobody as much as they do their hatred. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

I always want more glory. Always. — Adolfo Cambiaso

In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's your legs that do all the work. In polo, it's the horses' legs. — Adolfo Cambiaso

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses. — Adolfo Cambiaso

I play the way it's most effective for the team. They used to say I hit the ball too many times. — Adolfo Cambiaso

... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine.
What is poetry! And you are asking me?
Poetry ... is you. — Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Under the bludgeonings of fate
My head is bloody, but unbowed. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply because they are of no interest to anyone.
Human beings themselves, after death, become figures in a dream to the survivors , they fade away and are forgotten, like dreams that were once convincing, but which no one cares to hear about. There are parents who find in their children a receptive audience, with the result that in the child's credulous imagination they find a last semblance of life, which quickly dims out as if they had never existed ... — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

I was never the diplomatic diplomat. — Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I have to look after myself. I go to the gym every day; I have physio every day, I have a couple of guys that work with my body a lot. — Adolfo Cambiaso