Rio Quotations

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.

I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics. On a personal level, playing in the Olympics would be a huge honour. However, the Games in Rio are still four years away and I certainly won't be making any decisions with regards to participating any time soon.

Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the racing world, part of the diabetes community worldwide.

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the world stage. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics represented the unification of Europe. And when Rio plays host in 2016, it will reinforce the growing importance of Brazil and Latin America as a whole.

The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.

Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.

I have the best job in the world. I wake up every morning energized at the thought of running Rio de Janeiro, the most exciting city on the planet.

In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Each of 4,000 buses in the city has a camera connected to the situation room.

The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.

Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.

What they're doing is combining local telephone monopolies from the Rio Grande all the way to the Great Lakes plus California. These are markets that have not been opened to competition.

Yes it will, and I think Monterrey is just over an hour away by air. We felt it was very important to have an association with a Mexican team and we've created this Rio Grande Plate. We have a two-year agreement for 2006 and 2007 -- we expect that it will be a much longer lasting agreement than that, but we wanted to kind of put our toe in the water and see how it looks. I think it's going to be very positive.

She had asked for a DVD in which her steps were recorded, to be sent to Rio where she was shooting. After pack-up, she used to return to her suite and practice her steps.

Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got to do my own thing.

I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly says, 'Ooh, 'Downton' started this week.' You completely forget it's staggered across the world.

I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

He won't know who I am or anything like that. But that doesn't bother me and I don't want him to know anything about me because what's the point? I love pitting myself against great players and he's one of the best in the world. I like to try to make a nuisance of myself when I play. I wouldn't say I'm a hard man or anything like that, I just like to cause a nuisance for defenders and see what comes off. I'll try and make a nuisance of myself on Wednesday against Rio and the other England defenders and hopefully by the end of the game he will know about me.

He didn't have to ask. I told him (he needs to find) the money to fund projects similar to what you're seeing in Rio Rancho. ... If you truly want to leave no child behind, Mr. President, the magic elixir is to transform public education and engage children into their passions.

John came in as skipper in Rio and has had a careful look at all aspects of our campaign. The team has gained much from his input and will benefit from his continued involvement. I will be happy to take over as skipper again after the in-port race. We are very fortunate to attract such talented new sailors to the team and I very much look forward to working with them. We will work hard to keep on improving, and hope that our results will reflect the team's true potential. We will certainly keep on giving it all our energy.

I was disappointed it wasn't reported that I said Rio Ferdinand was the best defender in the world and that Wayne Rooney was the best footballer in the world.

I thought we'd be anywhere from a seven to a nine seed, but I thought we'd be at home. I think those losses to Rio Hondo and Victor Valley really hurt us.

I respect what Tracy has done here in the Rio Grande Valley, and I thought it would be good to have him on the bench for the game. The bottom line is, I really felt that he deserved to be an All-Star coach because of the job he's done here.

Our farmers, ranchers and cities will have 100 percent of the water they are entitled to, not just for the rest of this year, but for all of 2006, ... Now that the debt is paid, both countries must continue to work in good faith to meet the water demands of citizens on both sides of the Rio Grande for years to come.

Rio will probably be the one company that doesn't provide a disappointment somewhere.

Rio was a period of my life, and then, poof, I'm gone. I was very young living here, just kind of floating. New York was a foundation for everything I do today. Rio was the bridge.

Rio wants assets on a world class basis, and the sale is a reflection of the quality and scale of assets it wants. It has a track record of selling assets and getting good prices at the top of the market.

Rio can play that holding midfield position for England - the kid is good enough to do it. Sven should be looking at Rio to do that in the World Cup because I think he is awesome. He can play centre-half, right-back, anywhere.

Rio Bend is now a reality and so are the hopes of 48 kids who for too long have been denied the basic physical and emotional necessities that all children need,

My perception is that we are headed toward a future where the surface water from the Rio Grande diversion is likely to be the dominant source of water for most communities around the Santa Fe area.

Many courts in other counties would toss this case because of the standard that no reasonable juror could find for the plaintiff in this situation. It's been our experience that many of the courts in the Rio Grande Valley are very, very friendly to plaintiffs' counsel and let cases go forward.

Why would anybody want to pay twice what they have to?. If you don't have the water, it makes sense. There are a number of communities along the Rio Grande that don't have water already or have very little. They don't have a lot of choices.

We received applications from 29 nonprofit groups, all of whom do great work to serve the needs of New Mexicans. Our five-member selection panel focused on organizations that provide critical human services, which are being stretched thin, due to the rapid growth of Rio Rancho and Sandoval County.

We're delighted to have this relationship with a not-for-profit health care network that has been serving the Rio Grande Valley so well for 80 years.

We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.

We are now the Rio Colorado Chapter of the American Red Cross.

The problem we had with the RIO was that it could exacerbate the MP3 piracy problem by encouraging more people to post illegal MP3 files and more people to download them.

The only England player I have come across is Rio Ferdinand. I played against him when he was at Leeds.

The crew work in Rio de Janeiro was good and we are feeling confident for Saturday's race. I haven't sailed much with Jonathan Taylor, but from what I have seen and the experience he has got, I believe he will be a good addition to the team.

Weve included features that werent in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the Rio Grande levees. Now were focusing on the floodway levees too.

We have many people who live in Rio Rancho that work in Albuquerque.

We've had (rain) accumulations of as much as 25 inches in some locations. We're going to see that show up in the rivers for the next two or three days, eventually into the Rio Grande.

We knew from the beginning that this is what we wanted. Ever since our first game against Rio Grande, we said we wanted to be here playing for a state championship.

Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.

BHP and Rio are setting themselves up for growth for the next five years. Volumes will go up and that will boost their earnings.

I've been at Rio Tinto for 36 years and it's not a bad time to be in the mining industry.

The Rio Grande Valley area is an established corridor that smugglers use largely due to the geography, population, and an expanded smuggling network on both sides of the border.

Comparative advantage in the production of many of these requirements therefore lies outside China, with suppliers such as Rio Tinto.

Coming off a big win like the one we had against Rio Hondo, you never take a team for granted, ... Were not going to take anyone lightly.

The buyers are defying chart patterns, particularly on the big three, BHP, Rio and Woodside - they're just bludgeoning them through any resistance.

It's an interesting thing that you can really launch a business that will succeed without that many dollars. Our average is $100,000. We've got 31 in place now. We're looking to make sure they're good people and not headed to Rio with our money.

It started because Rio clipped Robbie Savage as they were leaving the pitch - I don't know why.

It's taking into consideration the Rio bid for North, and what benefits lie for other stocks in those related sectors, that's why we're seeing an improvement in BHP and other resource based stocks.

Everyone knows Garth Brooks is from Oklahoma. We want to do the same for Rio Rancho.

The neat thing about (the Teen Center) for those girls is that they both lived in Rio Dell and had mentioned to me how they really appreciated having somewhere to come after school while their parents were still at work.

The Chinese want to diversify their supplies and with the small miners they can get equity stakes that they can't get from the bigger ones like Rio Tinto. If they can get in early, they may be able to lock in supplies at good prices.

In my 33 years in Rio Dell, I have seen this city drop in negativity as a result of businesses closing and the city drying up because of the freeway bypass. But we've dealt with that and the city is united. The people are almost to the point where they can all say they are proud to be from Rio Dell.

In a way it's disappointing because we were really prepared for Rio Rico. We've worked hard these past few days trying to prepare for things Rio Rico had shown us the previous two games.

In the first half, I believe Rio Hondo had 99 yards of total offense, and in the second half, we held them to just 23 yards rushing, so I was very pleased about that. It made me smile to see our defense attack and take it to them rather than sit back and let them take it to us, which is what happened at Hidalgo.

In the early 1990s, a number of Rio Grande Valley children were born with neural tube defects, a very high concentration for any area.

I hope Rio Ferdinand plays for a long time but I truly believe, before his career is over, we will have dealt with this problem. I think UEFA has been relentless in its fight against racism.

I get a bit annoyed when I hear people say the in-port racing isn't a big deal because it certainly is. This race is worth the same as the leg from Wellington (New Zealand) to Rio and that was 6,700 miles.

The first thing is to get to know the team - find the strengths, the areas we need to improve. Rio Rancho has great employees. It's a great city, and it has a great future ahead of it.

Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that, we're very similar.

And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!