Mariano Quotes & Sayings

I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts. — Mariano Rivera

We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements. — Mariano Rajoy

I listen to Christian music. — Mariano Rivera

I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make. — Daniel Alarcon

I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host. — Rob Mariano

I get over bad games right away. Sometimes I've let it go even before I've left the mound. That quick. Why? Because it's over. What can you do about it? Nothing. The only thing you can do is fight if you're still in the game. After that you can do nothing. — Mariano Rivera

Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive. — Mariano Rivera

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society. — Mariano Rajoy

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is. — Mariano Rivera

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God. — Mariano Rivera

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in. — Mariano Rajoy

I'm a kid from Boston. — Rob Mariano

Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up. — Rob Mariano

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick. — Mariano Rivera

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do. — Mariano Rivera

The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation. — Mariano Rajoy

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances. — Mariano Rajoy

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. — Mariano Rajoy

I always take time for somebody who wants to talk to me. — Mariano Rivera

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen. — Mariano Rivera

The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition. — Andrea Tantaros

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good. — Mariano Rivera

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say with respect. — Mariano Rivera

It was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect on him, that Swann remarked Odette's resemblance to the Zipporah of that Alessandro de Mariano to whom more people willingly give his popular surname, Botticelli, now that it suggests not so much the actual work of the Master as that false and banal conception of it which has of late obtained common currency. — Marcel Proust

I don't wait for people to give me respect. I always give them respect. — Mariano Rivera

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out. — Mariano Azuela

I am convinced that being fully committed to the moment, without any worries about the past or projections into the future, is the best attribute a closer can have. You wonder why the shelf life of so many short relievers is, well, so short? Why guys can be unhittable for a year or two and then disappear? It's because it takes a ton of concentration, and self-belief, to stay in the moment in this way and not let the highs and lows mess with your psyche. — Mariano Rivera

If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you? — Alex Rodriguez

There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did. He made my job as a catcher so much easier. Mariano is a special person and obviously a special player. — Jorge Posada

Greed is not a consequence of poverty. If it were so, why does the art of acquisition continue to hone and whet itself towards ever more sophisticated strategies? Why is there no end to personal betrayal, corporate espionage, and diplomatic deception among nations? In accolade to greed, even semantics and rationalization have graduated to such undreamed-of heights! History, in failing to embrace the truth, always genuflects to the orchestral swings and sways of contemporary power. — Mariano Ngan

I'm a positive man. — Mariano Rivera

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing. — Mariano Rajoy

Love is abstract. It is something you cannot touch nor cannot carry" - Lance Mariano — Aril Daine

I don't want to pitch forever. — Mariano Rivera

My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that. — Mariano Rivera

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody. — Mariano Rivera

I don't think any professional accepts defeat. — Mariano Rivera

I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work. — Mariano Rivera

Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain. — Mariano Rajoy

And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable. — Mariano Ngan

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. — Mariano Rajoy

The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food. — Rob Mariano

There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future. — Mariano Rajoy

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence. — Mariano Rajoy

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people. — Mariano Rivera

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think. — Mariano Rivera

I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining. — Rob Mariano

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high. — Mariano Rajoy

I really consider myself very fortunate over the years to have the experiences that I had and to be able to come out on top tonight means the world. It's been a long road and it's a lot of hard. — Rob Mariano

I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the . — Rob Mariano

It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera? — Bruce Sutter

Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement. — Rob Mariano

I know I'm not musically talented. — Rob Mariano

For the transcendental quintessence of good music can never be found or felt in the warring breast of the beast. And he who is incapable of gratitude and compassion is incapable of being good and doing good. — Mariano Ngan

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless. — Rob Mariano

I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country. — Mariano Rivera

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself. — Mariano Rivera

I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do. — Mariano Rivera

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve. — Rob Mariano

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it. — Mariano Rivera

I'm a competitor! — Rob Mariano

It seemed I was torn; I wanted my goodbye, and I didn't. I wanted him to make me stay, and I wanted to go. — Sam Mariano

Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats.
Mariano the Third built bigger boats.
And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world. — Ally Carter

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves. — Mariano Rajoy

If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman. — Mariano Rivera

You're correct that I've never experienced poverty, but you've never experienced a man you've grown up with for 20 years, more brother than friend, try to assassinate you because another man wanted what was yours. You've never had your older sister gouge you in the leg with a throwing star and try to end your life. You've never had to live every day knowing the only thing between you and a body bag is a good bodyguard and the people who would kill you being too afraid of what you'd do if they failed. — Sam Mariano

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable. — Mariano Rivera

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years. — Mariano Rajoy

I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens. — Mariano Rivera

God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people. — Mariano Rivera

I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing. — Rob Mariano

There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night. — Jorge Posada

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid. — Rob Mariano

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me. — Mariano Rivera

I think the good Lord is a Yankee. — Mariano Rivera

Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart. — Mariano Azuela

I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes. — Rob Mariano

The year was 1996, Guy Mariano and I had no clothing sponsors, and at that point in our lives we had purchased enough Polo, Hilfiger and Nautica gear to think, hey, maybe we should start a clothing company. — Eric Koston

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me. — Mariano Rivera

I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see is what you get. — Rob Mariano

I don't feel invincible because I'm human. — Mariano Rivera