Mathias Rust Quotes

I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.

My wife is from India, and I come to India a lot. I have never faced any security issue.

My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

Moving around a lot allows you to experience many different cultures and learn about the ways that different people in different parts of the country live, and it probably made me somewhat more adventuresome and allowed me to meet my future wife in Pensacola.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.

I am willing to go abroad if the right opportunity comes up.

My father is Spanish, and he went to Venezuela looking for a job. He was 20 something, and he fell in love with a Venezuelan girl. He owns a company there, producing iron and bronze.

The biggest change of my life was coming to America.

I met my wife in Latvia 17 or 18 years ago, moved over to Norway in 2003 or 2004 and after a couple of years living there, I was able to represent Norway as a snooker player.

I moved to L.A. in 2007 from Sweden.

I spend most of my time in London but I come back to Ireland whenever I can.

I was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., before my father got an appointment at a university in Italy and we moved to Italy. I spend a few years there before my family returned to Russia.

I grew up all over the world, including countries such as Sweden, Norway, U.S.A., and Kuwait.

In the past, when we toured countries like Australia or South Africa, we struggled, but we also got to learn a lot, and we learnt to cope with pressure.

I lived in Paris for about nine months. It was an experience.

Eventually, I gave up my sublet in Berlin and stayed in England for a long time - for about 20 years.