Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian athlete Kaka.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, commonly known as Kaká or Ricardo Kaká, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. In his prime as a playmaker at AC Milan, a period marked by his creative passing, goal scoring and dribbles from midfield, Kaká is widely considered one of the best players of his generation. With success at club and international level, he is one of eight players to have won the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Champions League and the Ballon d'Or.
I would say Neymar is my favourite young player. I love the way that he plays.
Tite is doing a great job for the Brazilian national team.
One always wants more when things work out.
Each goal I score is exciting.
It has been tough when I have been with the national team and we have gone to play in some of the poorer areas in Brazil. You see people come and watch us train or play a match, and then you know some of them are going home with no food on the plate.
People talk about the history of Manchester United or Liverpool, but look what Arsenal achieved with the team of Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira.
The best player I have ever played with? That's Ronaldo, il Fenomeno.
I learned that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.
I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.
For a player it's an amazing experience to be at Real Madrid. I matured a lot there, principally as a person.
I am always grateful to my team-mates at Milan for what we achieved.
It's not easy to decide what is best for you in the future.
Dani Alves is amazing.
One day, I hope I can play in MLS.
Playing motivates players.
AC Milan will always be a great team.
I like Seedorf. He is a good coach.
Jose Mourinho was a difficult coach for me, and we had a respectful but complicated relationship. When I thought he would give me a chance, I couldn't prove to him that I was in good shape.
My feelings in regards to the national team are simple: If the manager thinks I can be of use, I will be ready for the call.
Every time I hear the fans, it's exciting. It gives me a great feeling because I know it comes from their heart.
When I talk to my colleagues from the national team, they always talk to me about Real Madrid.
I have good memories of Real Madrid. Professionally, it was a difficult period, but my experience there was very good in all senses, as I grew a lot, learned many things, and lived with great champions.
Every player would love to play a tournament like the World Cup at home.
In football, there are good and bad times, but if you are a great side, you can be confident of winning trophies again.
Often, players at clubs I have been at have asked me for prayers or advice. I prefer to show them things rather than to say things; with my actions, not my words.
Every opportunity that presents itself, my main objective is to conquer and be victorious.
I have been in many teams that have had loads of talent but did not make it through and been with teams that did not have that much talent and ended up being champions.
When things go well, everyone talks well of you and vice versa. Unfortunately, football is like that.
Even though I am playing against others, and it is important to get there and win, I believe that Jesus is much more important than all of that.
There are a lot of big players and a lot of big teams, but I don't know if I'll get the opportunity to play in the Premier League.
In Italy, the coaches are very attentive to the details. They really study things, and that is a big difference here. They look at your movement, your positioning. They study you and work out how to stop you.
You only appreciate what it feels like to win the Champions League after you've seen it snatched away from you.
It's important for me to keep improving.
Even Cristiano Ronaldo, who has won two Ballons d'Or with Real Madrid, receives whistles from the Bernabeu.
A World Cup without Argentina isn't good.
Neymar will never fail to have technique and creativity.
If it's good for me to go to the national team and play there - not just go there to give experience but to play and be useful - I think it's good.
It's incredible to win an individual award in a team sport and also one where everybody wants to be able to say, 'I'm the best.'
Coutinho is a humble guy.
I know it's hard to follow the example of another team in the same country, but that's what you have to do sometimes.
It's nice to play in America.
Every championship that Brazil participates, we have the responsibility to win - every time. So when we don't win, it's considered as a failure.
I am not a great artist like Maradona was with regards to on-the-field matters.
My family, and my belief in God and Jesus, are the things which determine my life.
At Real Madrid, everything gets taken to extremes, as much for the good things as the bad things, so you have to adapt to the way that the press and the fans live through different situations.
I stayed in Milan for six years. I stayed in Madrid for four years. I played in Brazil for nine years, so I always think about the good projects.
His ambition for victory sets Mourinho apart. He wants to win every game, so he prepares all the smallest details; in training, at the game, everything. I loved to work with him.
In 2009, I accepted the proposal of Real Madrid, but I was completely destroyed there because I could not give what I had given Milan. I was completely lost.
My time at Real Madrid wasn't a failure. I played 120 matches, I scored 28 goals, and I played an average of 30 games a season. What's more, I won three trophies: La Liga, a Copa del Rey, and a Supercopa de Espana.
When I'm struggling, I can still dream about my successes.
Mourinho helped me grow. He taught me to be patient, to keep fighting, and to respect the coach's decisions. He helped me mature and turned me into a man.
In my time at Milan, the club played with a 4-3-1-2 formation, and I was the player behind the two strikers. At Real, I play behind three. There is a greater defensive obligation, but I try to work around the area.
Milan is my home, where I chose to go and where my heart really is.
At Madrid, pressure is normal.
I learned to respect the coach and to do everything within my power to show that I should be the one playing. That's exactly what I did during my three years under Mourinho.
I do want to live my life in the right way and live my life close to God.
What I can say is that Neymar is a very good player, amazing.
I have overcome many difficult moments in my career.
In Brazil, we think we can help by using our image, the fact that we are very well known, to help others. I think lots of footballers want to do something, but many don't know how.
I have been a big admirer of Coutinho, and he can be a very important player for Liverpool and Brazil.