Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Bruno Fernandes

To get to play alongside Cristiano and other very good Portuguese players makes me very proud, and I hope I can help inspire the next generation of nine-year-olds with painted faces, watching us in their own town squares.

I will be captain for my teammates and be captain of Manchester United is an important achievement for me but I think everyone is the captain, everyone needs to help and be a leader in their own way, leadership is different in every player.

There are those who say that defeats teach a lot, but also learning to win is not bad.

Of course every player wants to score, it's the most important part of the game, scoring goals and winning games.

I know everyone is talking about them like it's easy but you can lose a final with a penalty.

For most people, it's easy when you're in front of the TV. It is easy - just look at the goalkeeper jump to his left so why don't you shoot to the right? Yeah, I can shoot to the right but, on my mind, was the left and the goalkeeper saved it! It can happen! But the most important thing, for me, is to keep scoring.

I will never stop improving until I stop my career because I think every day you can improve, every day you can do something new, and every day you can do something better.

The most important target is the trophies. Trophies will be more important than scoring goals.

I find it hard to define myself.

You make your own reality.

For me, ever since I was a kid, it was a dream playing for Manchester United.

It doesn't matter how you score, when the ball touches the net it's a goal.

If I changed the mindset of some players or my mindset helped some players to be better - maybe. But I don't think it was me changing anything for the club because playing for Manchester United means playing with the pressure, playing with the responsibility.

For me, it was impressive how Iniesta finished his career without the Ballon d'Or. With everything he won, it is difficult for me to understand!

I think you can always learn every day, it doesn't matter how good you are.

I looked at Manchester with more interest when Cristiano was here because it's normal when you have Portuguese players in some teams, you look at them more than other teams.

You need to win the games no matter how.

My vision of coming to Manchester United is that I'm at one of the best clubs in the world, for me, the best club in England.

Representing your country in any circumstances is a huge honour.

I think yes, of course, when you score lots of goals, you are happy.

A team changes when everyone pushes together for the same side.

A No.10 doesn't need to score a lot to be confident.

My target is to score the most goals I can and assist my team-mates to score to.

If we win trophies, it is the most important thing. Of course, it's good for a player to win individual awards and I will never say I don't want to be the best player in the league or I don't want to be the PFA Player of the Season.

Because of Cristiano, my dream team in England was United.

You have to trust your team-mates, you have to trust yourself, and you have to believe.

I think the most important thing is to help the team and if you help the team it's okay.

Of course if I score I'm happy this is for sure.

If you see my stats, everyone is thinking that Bruno has to score in every game, Bruno has to assist in every game.

For me, losing is not normal so my mentality comes from that.

It doesn't matter who takes the penalty as long as the team scores.

When you have an individual trophy, of course, you are doing really well and deserve the credit but that credit goes to the team because they help you do better and better.

Yes, it was my dream to play in the Premier League and fortunately for me my dream is also to play for Manchester United.

We want to show our best qualities we can but the most important thing for us, for the team, is winning.

I played central defender for the most part when I started playing football, either central defence or right-back.

I think any player who joins Manchester United wants to win everything; I want to win every competition that Manchester United compete in.

I am confident when I take the penalty otherwise I would pass for somebody else.

I will never be tired to play.

Growing up, my father was never interested in how many goals I scored, how many passes I made, but only in how many mistakes I made, and how I could be more efficient.

When I received the call saying: 'Bruno, you have the chance of moving to Manchester' I called my wife, my brother, my sister, my mother and just started crying. But I was crying through happiness.

I'm a Cristiano Ronaldo fan and he's a player I've always followed.

When the coach wants me, it's important to know I'm ready to play every game, every minute.

I'm sure in some moments, I will score, I will assist, and I will perform. And that will help my team-mates to win the game.

Every goal is a great moment, every win is a great moment for us.

Nobody in football, a team sport, wins an individual trophy just doing well himself.

Of course every player wants a hat-trick.

When Cristiano burst on to the scene here in Manchester, he spent a good chunk of his early career here and enjoyed so much success. That's why it was a dream of mine to play for Manchester United and I'm very pleased to be here because it's a childhood dream come true.

At Sporting I have found the trust and I am at home. I had the chance to come and I immediately picked it up.

I think everyone has leadership inside them, but in different ways.

The one I liked to watch and follow was Iniesta, because Iniesta is a mix between an eight and a 10. It is a way I can do better, between eight and 10. It is the guy who always likes to have the ball, take the risks, and I think Iniesta was one of the best in the world.

Pressure always has to be present in our day-to-day and we have to be under pressure to improve every day.

Leading is every day in the training ground, every game and everyone is doing their job to lead the team in the way they think is best.

I was always Team Cristiano. My brother was always Team Messi.

We have to go into every game with the same mentality as we have for Liverpool. It can be different playing against Burnley to Liverpool. I understand for the fans it's different but, for us, it can't be because the result we want is the same and nothing else.

If you talk about stadiums that everyone knows, the most historic are San Siro and Old Trafford.

My target is winning trophies. It doesn't matter which kind of trophy it is, I want to win all of them.

Whatever it is, when I was playing with my friends, my brother, with my neighbours, I never wanted to lose.

People can say what they think, I don't care.

People will always complain about everything.

I want to win every time, this mentality will be with me for the rest of my life.