It was against a team that we would be expecting to fight for qualification. They are a very good team at home, with their fans behind them But I had an advantage in that I knew the team and knew the atmosphere here.


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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
RAFAEL MONEO
Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to peop...
RAFAEL CRUZ
I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our thro...
RAFAEL CRUZ
As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of yo...
RAFAEL CRUZ
The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.
RAFAEL CRUZ
One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-ye...
RAFAEL CRUZ
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Decl...
RAFAEL CRUZ
Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly p...
RAFAEL CRUZ
Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
RAFAEL CRUZ
If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year...
RAFAEL CRUZ
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indone...
RAFAEL CRUZ
Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social...
RAFAEL CRUZ
I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found mysel...
RAFAEL CRUZ
I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
RAFAEL CORREA
I'm a pacifist by nature.
RAFAEL CORREA
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, t...
RAFAEL CORREA
We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to ...
RAFAEL CORREA
It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives...
RAFAEL CORREA
I am an economist, not an astrologer.
RAFAEL CORREA
They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship a...
RAFAEL CORREA
Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
RAFAEL CORREA
The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has ...
RAFAEL CORREA
Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
RAFAEL CORREA
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is fre...
RAFAEL CORREA
I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a s...
RAFAEL NADAL
I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.
RAFAEL NADAL
Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the s...
RAFAEL NADAL
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
RAFAEL NADAL
I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I&...
RAFAEL NADAL
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimo...
RAFAEL SABATINI
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Di...
RAFAEL CORREA
After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any...
RAFAEL CORREA
I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
RAFAEL NADAL
You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clea...
RAFAEL CRUZ
My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
RAFAEL NADAL
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatn...
RAFAEL CRUZ
I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm cluele...
RAFAEL NADAL
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolut...
RAFAEL CORREA
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to rea...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the t...
RAFAEL NADAL
I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody e...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying prac...
RAFAEL NADAL
I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.
RAFAEL NADAL
Nobody is more frustrated and disappointed in me than I am. ... All my accomplishments are now taint...
RAFAEL PALMEIRO
To be honest, I haven't felt at my best since this tournament began. I didn't feel good with the cou...
RAFAEL NADAL
I always say Wimbledon is special for me because only one Spanish player - Manuel Santana (1966) - w...
RAFAEL NADAL
We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see...
RAFAEL NADAL
If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
RAFAEL NADAL
Well, it's never nice to get stung by a bee of course, and it's even more strange for it to happen i...
RAFAEL NADAL