Xavier Cugat quotes

Xavier Cugat quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.”
-- Xavier Cugat

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“You have to have a good race plan. Our race plan this morning was to win the heat and get into the finals tonight. Tonight will be the big race.”
“The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.”
“Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to peoples standards.”
“Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.”
“If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.”

Source : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006
“The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”
“Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.”
“A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.”
“He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter”

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