Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Andreas Pereira - Page 2

My father moved to Belgium to play in the first division. He was a very good player, someone I looked up to, but he was unlucky with knee injuries. He was a winger and I wanted to be the same as him.

Yeah I play a lot of 'FIFA' and 'NHL' - I don't want to just play football, I like to mix it up.

I always liked Santos. Then I started watching, it was the time, when I was very young, it was Robinho, Diego. Then I got the season that Neymar, Ganso and Elano played, I saw them all playing, that's when I fell in love with Santos.

I wanted to get experience of playing a season on loan at a club, to play week in, week out.

The coaches Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna are very detailed in the preparation. We study the weakness of the opponents.

I always looked up to Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo because he was for me the ideal footballer. He was at United, he had an unbelievable shot, his skills, he was fast, so the complete player. I always try to do the same things on the pitch like him.

Of course, United have always bought brilliant players. But you see Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard, who have come through the ranks, and before them Scholesy, Giggsy and Becks, who were given a chance to develop as players.

My family is Brazilian and I feel Brazilian, even though I have never lived there. I was born and raised in Belgium so I also feel Belgian. I feel the blood of a Brazilian, but I understand both ways.

I've been raised to win trophies.

At Valencia I have proven that I can participate at the highest level.

For some players it can be difficult at a smaller club and they suffer; they don't want to be at a club that's going to get relegated, so they think: 'Why am I here? What am I doing?' But it was good for me to go to Granada.

My home is here in Manchester now but my family home is in Brazil. With Belgium I feel like I have three homes.

I can play high-level football and have a good year, all year, and then I am ready to be a starter for United.

I want to make the crowd, my team mates and my manager happy.

The Premier League is very competitive, the English are very passionate about football.

I'm always busy listening to music or playing PlayStation, I'm never really quiet - I have to be moving.

United are a massive club and to be part of it is an honour.

I used to play for PSV. I was like, 'If I play for PSV, it's good. My dream is to play here. I love PSV as the club too. And then play for Santos.'

In training and at the club, players know that the player is good. You notice when the guy arrives, who's the ace, who's the player who maybe can't take the level.

Play with joy, enjoy every moment make sure you enjoy every second you're on the pitch.

I can play as an attacking midfielder on the left or right wing.

I have friends in Manchester, some of them go to the away games with United and they were sad when I left to go on loan.

When I used to watch Ronaldinho his dribbling skills and the way he played I am really a fan of that. Kaka he was very fast, he scored goals and them both are the players I look up to.

It was like a dream, I was 16 years old and to get the chance to be at a big club like United is a dream come true.

My background is in Dutch football.

I'm very scared of snakes, I really don't like snakes, not even on my phone when I see it, I can't touch it.

I know what it is to have pressure for 80 minutes and then maybe in one counterattack need to score.

Since I was little, my father always bought me a Santos shirts.

At Valencia I was playing a high level every week and I improved a lot. I was under pressure in a good way, I played in a team which played very good football with an explosive counter attack.

I know what it is now to have difficult games in a relegation team.

My entire family is Santista.

Brazil has so many good free-kick takers.

I want to make it at Manchester United.

I play against big teams in big stadiums.

We had a lot of difficult times at Granada.

Ronaldinho and Juninho Pernambucano for Lyon were two players I watched taking free-kicks as I grew up.

I started when I was eight years old, I was playing football at a club, before that it was a kick about with friends.

I'm a Cristiano Ronaldo fan and once I got to talk to him. He told me to grow in Manchester, to train very hard, to be relentless. That was the advice he gave to me. Training every day, sometimes even on off days.

Derbies are always special.

Brazil always had a lot of good players, but I always enjoyed watching Kaka and Ronaldinho. They played in more or less my position.