Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Bruno Fernandes - Page 2

You need to go out to the game and just understand you need to beat your opponent. With all of the respect, because you need to have respect for your opponent, but you need to beat them. If you don't beat them, they will beat you.

I have a lot of players I like to see. For example, in my first few years, the player I think is the one everyone liked and always will like is Ronaldinho. For me, he is the player with the capacity to take you and put you in front of the TV, and you will stay for hours. For hours!

The real world doesn't tell you that you were unbelievable after every match. A lot of times they are people that criticise you telling that you are not good enough. That's just football. You have to be able to take it with a smile, and analyse it truthfully, and use it as motivation.

For me it's really the same, assist or goal, I don't choose. If I can do one of them or both it's good, the most important thing is the team winning.

When you have strikers who move a lot, and they give you the chance to play balls for them, it is really good.

We know the fans want to see goals, skills, some magic things but the most important thing, for us, and what we need to think about, is winning.

Since I was a kid it was a dream to play for Man United, and to be there at Old Trafford is the biggest dream of my career.

I'm an ambitious player who wants success and I want to win every game in every competition we're in.

I'm a person who demands a lot from myself and always want more and to do better.

Of course, I enjoy assisting my team-mates because playing no.10 is the position you have to serve your team-mates.

I want to be the best I can and if it is possible be remembered like one of the best in Manchester.

In Portugal, you couldn't always find Premier League kits, and if you could, they were really expensive.

It's always pressure to take a pen, doesn't matter if it's against City, or another team. It's always pressure to take the pens.

You can be better every day. If not, I will not come to training every day.

When I was a kid, I played maybe seven or eight hours a day. So, to play 90 minutes every three days or two days is not enough for me.

It's great to have Cristiano. He makes any team stronger.

It's not enough just to be talented, or to work hard, or to be mentally strong. You have to combine absolutely everything. You have to live football, completely.

You don't want your rivals at the same level as you, or with the same amount of trophies as you.

I think everyone knows what it means to play a derby - it doesn't matter which derby it is.

I play midfielder, playmaker, even second striker: where I am needed and where I can be most useful.

I look for every game in the same way. And I think the league is not a sprint, it's a marathon. So you don't have to score or win against the big six - you have to score and win against everyone.

Maybe my way of showing leadership is a little more expressive and people see more from me than other players but I think at the end of the day, you have to have 25 leaders in the team if you want to win something.

You look in the past and when I'm younger, you look at the players who play for Manchester United and you see the biggest stars in the world.

I came to Manchester to win trophies.

Penalties are part of the game, you know. You need to score. You have the chance but you need to score.

The players start to recognise your game, start to know how you move, how you pass, how you shoot and the things become difficult now. So now I need to improve more and to work more and understand more the teams who I play against because they will understand me better, but I need to be prepared to understand better the difficulties they can have.

I grew up with my brother who is five years older, and so I grew up playing with him and with his friends. Most of the time, I wouldn't play because he didn't want me to play with his friends - I don't know if he was afraid that I was too good for them!

At Old Trafford you warm up with nobody in the stands, you hear nothing in the tunnel, and then you enter the pitch and you hear an incredible noise.

What goes on in the pitch, out of it, for me, it's past.

You always see what people say but I really don't care. I'm not focused on what they are saying.

I don't care about the transfer market.

One player doesn't change a team.

Of course, the Premier League is one of the trophies we want to win and I think to win the Europa League would be good for the mentality of winning trophies and fighting with the top clubs.

I have respect for Pep and what he won, and what he did for football because he changed some mentalities in football.

The position I play is to do that, assist and score when you can.

I was really good, I had a coach who said to me, 'If you want to be a top player, you will need to play as a central defender. If you want to be a good player, you will be a midfielder.' I think he was wrong but, maybe as a central defender, I could be much better, I don't know!

When you come to a new club you always want to score, and the first goal is special. It doesn't matter how the goal is scored, but important is the goal's worth.

I'm there to serve my strikers.

You have to put pressure on yourself.

I see people talking about Bruno not doing so well against the 'big six.' People have said Bruno gives the ball away too many times when we lose a game.