Puerto Quotations

I like to make Arroz con Gandules, rice with pigeon peas. My husband loves it. It's a Puerto Rican dish my mother taught me.

But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way.

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

The government of Puerto Rico has every right to hold a plebiscite, to consult the people of Puerto Rico regarding their wishes. But the truth is that for a change in the status of Puerto Rico to happen, you need both Congress and Puerto Rico agreeing to it.

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.

After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia.

Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents in - everything from Jose to Francisco to Victorio to Rain has been suggested.

Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'

I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me.

It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.

I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.

I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

We're looking forward to getting started again. The guys have worked hard in practice and in qualifying, and it's a nice reward to get to play in a tournament, especially in a place as nice as Puerto Rico. We're looking forward to knocking off some rust and getting ready for the rest of the spring.

We've got (firefighters) here from Florida, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, pretty much all over the United States.

We've been holding off on going to Puerto Rico until we absolutely needed to. We may need to do that to get regional games.

There is concern with the mountainous regions here, we think wind gusts could hit up to 150 miles per hour. There's concern too for high-rise buildings in Puerto Rico.

When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful.

There are well settled provisions of federal law that guarantee bilingual assistance at the polls for those of Puerto Rican origin and others,

Non-professionally, Cuba is one of the best teams in the world. Everyone hears about what a great reputation the Cuban ball club has. A lot of people want to see Cuba measure up against a professional team so that's going to draw a lot of attention. In Puerto Rico everybody is looking forward to the game against Cuba. I think it's all about bragging rights.

My first formal research, published in 1953, was on trying to understand the dynamics of prejudice, of interaction between blacks and Puerto Ricans.

More and more people were coming in (to the library). They were mostly the Puerto Rican population, but we then saw that the Mexican population exploded, so we decided to branch out to get them to come in.

Maybe it says something about the fact that they were both raised in different countries. I think if you ask anybody, they'll tell you European players are more fundamentally sound than American players. And maybe the same is true for learning the game in Puerto Rico.

Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.

On one level, I enjoyed the irony of the situation: a girl who's from a Cuban or Puerto Rican household who's been discouraged from speaking Spanish.

I was spoiled beyond belief. I had the first tricycle in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico. They hated me there,

I would definitely have to say the championship game was the greatest experience. Puerto Rico was a very tough team and the defending champions. For us to go and beat the reigning champions was something that we'll never forget.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

I don't eat Puerto Rican food in L.A. because it's just too much, too addicting, but I know how to cook, so I can easily make it. I just choose not to because you never stop! I think my favorite would be pollo guisado con arroz blanco y habichuelas. I love tostones, I love maduros! I can eat rice and beans all day long!

I love all Puerto Rican food. I love rice and beans. I like anything with steak, chicken, pork. But I like chocolate and potato chips, too. I eat that when my wife goes away and isn't looking.

From there, we'd like to get him in the fall league and, if he does well and where he's at stamina-wise, we may even look at the Puerto Rican League just to make up for some of the time that he has not been on the field.

He's had a good spring. Coming into Spring Training, I didn't have any expectations for him, because he didn't have a good 2005 season, and didn't pitch particularly well in Puerto Rico. He exceeded my expectations, because he wasn't a guy who would've even been considered for somewhere in the pitching staff.

He had an outstanding year in Puerto Rico. He's obviously carried that into the 2006 campaign.

Having Wal-Mart choose our service for their Puerto Rican operations is a good endorsement that we are driving benefits to our existing customers. The level of commitment we see in the Wal-Mart Puerto Rico team will make this partnership a success. We are very proud to be working with Wal-Mart Puerto Rico.

He's done well for me. What he's done has excited me. He's going to the fall league and was thinking about Puerto Rico.

I admire him for his work, but I know he's going to lose. I guarantee he's not going to win. But it's like I tell everybody: You Puerto Ricans, you got to vote for your own kind no matter what. It doesn't make a difference if he's going to win or lose. Stand behind him; maybe he might win, and then he could help you out.

He can make the lineup on any team. Especially on our team. If he is able to come back and play with us in Puerto Rico, our team is going to be a lot better.

It hurts us not to play Friday night games. We got home late Thursday from Puerto Rico and had to play a day game the next day on the 12th. We can get home at 1 o'clock not fall asleep until two and have to be back up at eight while the other team has been here. They are in bed before we even get home.

It is a great day for the two teams. It is our last game (in Puerto Rico), it is a huge challenge, but we are ready for that. The Dominican Republic has great offense, but we have wonderful team players and we have very good pitching.

Latinos are very sensitive to different accents. I sort of lost my Mexican accent, and that's what they were looking for in this case some sort of neutral accent that could be understood on both coasts and in different Hispanic communities: Puerto Ricans on the East Coast, Cubans in Fort Lauderdale and Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles.

I think the unique thing about this type of event is that you have players playing against other players you never play against. Especially in Puerto Rico, we're excited about having a game against Cuba.

I think there's going to be a lot of emotions, having the opportunity to represent your country in front of the home crowd. I'm proud of being Puerto Rican. Obviously, we think this is a big deal.

I support the president's authority to make decisions with regard to clemency and pardons. That is a president's right, ... But I must say I am troubled deeply by the lack of remorse, the lack of empathy for the victims on the part of the Puerto Ricans themselves. And based upon that, I intend to vote in favor of the resolution.

Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel, explore the world, meet amazing people, work for great charities and be a voice to empower women wherever I went. For all those things, I am grateful.

Some of our best fighters are not only Puerto Rican greats but all-time greats of the sport. Carlos Ortiz, Wilfredo Gomez, Wilfredo Benitez and Felix 'Tito' Trinidad and many others have made Puerto Rican boxing what it is today, and I am only an extension of their greatness.

My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.

I was upset. Obviously, I wanted to play for Puerto Rico. I wanted to play in front of my family, to be there and wear that P.R. on my shirt. But it didn't happen.

I thought I had a better chance of getting an appointment to West Point by attending Gordon than I would coming out of a high school in Puerto Rico.

That was awesome. They cheered more for Puerto Rico than they did the Mets. I thought this was supposed to be a Mets town?

My changeup, curve and sinker were good. I'm just waiting on the fastball. I need more velocity and I know it's going to come. After I take time off and start throwing again, there's a period when you work through the shoulder soreness. I'm at that point now. I'm right on schedule for the Classic. The fastball should be there for me in Puerto Rico.

We'll respect what Ms. or Mrs. Robinson said. I think that Jackie Robinson was an icon and he opened a lot of doors for African-American players. But having said that, we cannot overlook all the work that Roberto Clemente has done for Puerto Rico and Latin America. I'm 100% behind having No. 21 retired.

Tim did what he did for us this summer in Puerto Rico, and what he's done for San Antonio all these years. He's just solid down the stretch. You get him the ball and he gets you a basket.

To be the first Puerto Rican to win a world title in four divisions would be an achievement. Gomez, Benitez, there have been a lot of good fighters from Puerto Rico before me. When I started boxing, Tito Trinidad was our big star.

Tom Hicks said that he was going to come to Puerto Rico and give it his best shot. He did all that and more.

We're coming to win against Cuba. We came very close to a win against Puerto Rico and we know we can beat anybody in this tournament.

We have several areas that we accept films from that are not specifically delineated as countries but have been accepted over the years, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Puerto Rico.

We analyzed the market in Puerto Rico. Passengers want an easier, economy option rather than flying from San Juan International.

The reason was that there simply weren't enough Hispanic - forget Puerto Rican - Hispanic male and female dancers at the time who could do the kind of professional job that was needed for Jerome Robbins' choreography, which is, you might have noticed, extremely complex and very difficult.

There can be no more free ride for Puerto Rico.

We were performing in Puerto Rico one time. I'd had surgery and couldn't perform the dance routines. The crowd was calling out, 'La colora!' He couldn't figure out what that meant, though he spoke fluent Spanish. Finally, someone said, 'The redhead!' They wanted me to dance. He tried to explain why I couldn't, saying I'd had surgery. 'Want to know where she had it?' he asked the crowd. 'In Las Vegas!'

The Puerto Rico tournament was about as poorly as we have played in a long time. We've had a good week of practice, and everyone understands that the performance at Puerto Rico is not up to our standards, and we need to get back to playing like we did the rest of the year.

Be sure to ask him about Puerto Rico beating Canada.

First of all, I didn't want to do it. But my father is here (visiting from Puerto Rico), so I decided to do it for him, to win it for him.

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

The tournament in Puerto Rico in late February has 18 teams, 12 of which are ranked in the top 25 in the country. So, it's a talented field and will be a great challenge.

It was unbelievable. It was like playing in the World Series. That surprised me. Who knew that many people live in Puerto Rico?

The television ads promoted the United States, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. They never mentioned Mexico. So we had to prove ourselves on the field.

'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!

Ron Jon stepped up to the plate this year. They did it to get those surfers from California and Hawaii and Puerto Rico. We do have some outstanding surfers coming.

Puerto Rico is very important to him and the fact of the matter is this is the capital of Latin America. Because of that, where could he do more for Latin America? Where could he do more for Puerto Rico than here? These are all things I've put in front of him and made him aware of.

Puerto Rico is the perfect meeting place between Spain, the country I come from, and America, the country where I now belong. The meeting point of two worlds where magic can happen.

Puerto Rico has a very good team. They have a lot of talent. If they play well they're going to win. They have the bats, so it's a question of how far their pitching can take them.

Puerto Rican culture is very lively; very lively people; very warm people; and the food is really great. We're all about cooking a lot of food and having family around, we're kind of loud. It's that sort of vibe and it's great.

Denis' dad and Roberto Clemente were first cousins. Baseball is still our more popular sport in Puerto Rico, but basketball is really catching on.

That game sold out immediately. The people in Puerto Rico will be beside themselves.

You wait till you see that Dominican team. You wait till you see Puerto Rico. You wait till you see Venezuela. . . . Matsui is a great player. The Japanese team needs him.

This is great for Mexico. You see commercials on the TV for all the baseball powerhouse countries and they mention Cuba, the Dominican, Puerto Rico, Venezuela. They don't mention Mexico. Maybe now they will.

This guy is even worse. Because when I get back to Puerto Rico and train, believe me, I'm going to knock you out. You can laugh. May 6, you're not going to laugh. You'll see.

They started to integrate Spanish lyrics with regular reggae dance-hall, so that became popular. And what happened is that music went to Puerto Rico.

Americans are going to wake up Thursday morning with Puerto Rico well on its way to becoming the 51st state, and they're going to ask why weren't we informed?

This is what Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico fans are all about. This is how baseball should be played all the time.

This is a very unique opportunity. It is once in a lifetime and you have to make exceptions and adjustments. I am proud of being Puerto Rican, and we think this is a big deal.

There's a lot of things going on. You can have a dozen different kinds of vacations in Puerto Rico.

For me, I'm very happy to represent Puerto Rico and to do a good job for my country. It's always very nice when you represent where you're from.

For me he is the Jackie Robinson of Latin baseball. He lived racism. He was a man who was happy to be not only Puerto Rican, but Latin American. He let people know that. And that is something that is very important for all of us.

It starts from here, taking it back to Spring Training and go toward April. I like to have a strong start and go out there continue it. Hopefully we can get these two games out of the way and go on to the next round for us and for the people of Puerto Rico.

It's serious in Puerto Rico. The game against Cuba is sold out - it sold out in two or three hours.

It was a great game. A good bounce-back game for us after losing to Canada yesterday. It showed how much pride we have in USA Basketball. After losing yesterday's game, coming out and being able to play hard today against Puerto Rico, that says a lot.

It's what everybody is waiting for. Everybody is excited about the World Cup and I hope it gets things going for Puerto Rico. At one time, we had the best baseball in the world.

It will be beneficial for the Puerto Rican team. They'll get some more at-bats against Major League competition, and that'll be helpful.

The U.S. Navy cannot, and should not, force the people of Puerto Rico to live in fear for their lives by continuing to use their island for target practice.