Scolari Quotes & Sayings

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible. — Peter Scolari

People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row. — Luiz Felipe Scolari

The reality of getting married, it really changed things into something beautiful. There was transformation. — Peter Scolari

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself. — Peter Scolari

Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.' — Luiz Felipe Scolari

In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to. — Luiz Felipe Scolari

I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it. — Peter Scolari

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy. — Peter Scolari

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman. — Peter Scolari

My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good. — Peter Scolari

I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent. — Peter Scolari

I probably make more money in a year on 'Newhart' than 70 percent of your working top-name stars. Some weeks I just have six lines, but it doesn't bother me. — Peter Scolari

Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ. — Luiz Felipe Scolari

This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar ... in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea. — Luiz Felipe Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back. — Peter Scolari

I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible. — Luiz Felipe Scolari

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.' — Peter Scolari