Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Fernandinho

For me, in football, everything is possible, and every game is a battle.

For me, it is the trophies that are important, not the goals.

Occasionally, when I come off during a game, I get a little bit angry. But it's only because I want to play in every game and every minute to help my team-mates.

The English league itself is very strong physically, very demanding.

Sometimes people mistake some things regarding that, thinking just one player would make up for the needs of an entire club.

Playing for a huge club in a huge League makes me so happy.

When you're a child, you watch Brazil on TV and feel that desire to be a national team player, so when you get here, you make a dream come true, and it's a huge honour to me and to every player who wears the Brazil shirt.

I came to England because I thought it would help me to get back in the Brazilian national team.

Would I have preferred not to play in a home World Cup for Brazil, a privilege that most people in this world can only dream of? Not a chance.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

The important thing is to win the title, and if we can do it with style and by entertaining, it's perfect.

In the end, we parted ways in good terms, and Shakhtar had a nice sending-off for me. I wish them well, and I am sure they feel the same.

When you win a title, you gain confidence, and the supporters love you because they want to win things as well.

Manaus has got nothing in relation to Brazilian football history.

I have heard what has been said, but most of the time, I recover the ball without making a foul.

I was in Donetsk for eight years. I was happy there. I won six titles. I knew everyone, and I was a big part of the club.

Wembley is special.

Whoever wants to be champions has to be able to attack and defend.

Getting to the World Cup is a big dream for me.

My body works best when I'm playing all the time, so when I work more and I play more, I feel better.

The Selecao is always treated as favourites, so we're aware of our responsibility, and the goal is always to enter every competition to win, and the World Cup is no different.

I listen to the Manchester news on local radio. It has helped me learn English. I have it on when I am driving to training in the morning.

My father and uncles all encouraged me to play football: every present I ever got would be boots, kit, or a new ball, and that was just how I liked it.

I believe my chances of making the World Cup squad will improve if I join City. My exposure would be better because Brazil is biased towards the Ukrainian league.

Shakhtar specifically are proud when traditional clubs from Europe come knocking, and I knew it would be quite hard to convince them to let me join City. Listen, I am absolutely thankful for the opportunity they gave me, but I also think I worked my socks off for that club, and it was time to look after my career.

When you are a father, when you talk to your son or your daughter for the first time, they don't understand you. Of course, you have patience, and you keep talking to them, and eventually they do understand.

I've always dreamed of playing in the World Cup and wearing the Selecao jersey, but I knew how difficult that was, what with me playing in Ukraine for Shakhtar.

If I only wanted money and a comfortable life, I would have stayed in Ukraine.

After I signed for Man City, the people back home in Brazil congratulated me for signing for one of the top teams.

The Premier League is considered the best league in the world.

In my country, we say that football is like a huge plate of food. Well, I want to eat everything because I want to win every trophy I can for City.

The titles are important forever; it doesn't matter when you win. They keep you motivated to win the Premier League and the Champions League.

In the Premier League, the most important thing is not to give the team at the top of the table reasons to keep winning game after game.

I am a nice guy.

In my country, they used to call players who play in my position a defensive midfielder, but it is not defensive.

Since I was 13 years old, I made sure I was going to training every day.

I've played a few times in stadiums where the fans have been banned, and it's just not the same.

Real Madrid are one of the main teams in Europe. They are a team which has won the Champions League the most times, a very good team, and known throughout the whole world as well.

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

Some of my friends wanted to do different things, but all I ever wanted to do was play outside with a ball.

You think about past World Cups - in 2006, it was a fantastic Brazil team, but we did not do so well that year. In 2010, the same: it did not go far, either - only the quarter-finals. But in '94 and 2002, Brazil did not play the best football but won the World Cup; they found a way to win.

I moved cities when I was 17, and I moved countries when I was 20. Every time, I put football at the forefront and, if you do that, you don't have such a hard time settling in.

City have been working throughout the years to mount competitive teams and pursue titles.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

If someone was ever racist towards me, I would go wild.

Sometimes you get players who are faster than you or who can trick you with some skill. Sometimes you make the foul.

Playing in the Premier League for City is like a dream.

Pep and his staff work very hard, not just on the training pitch but also with the analysis of opponents, and now, of course, we understand more how he wants to play.

Willian is fantastic. It was good to be with him in Ukraine, where we won several titles together.

No matter how great a squad is, a competition like the Champions League is not easily won.

I like every competition I can play.

Playing for Brazil is a huge pleasure. I think it's a huge pride.

The important thing to understand, from my point of view, is if the opponents break our lines and they are attacking our box, something has gone wrong, and it is me who has to fix it. But fouls in football are normal. You have to do it sometimes.

I watched Romario when I was young, and he was one of my idols.

I smile because I am a happy guy.

I just love to play and always want to be involved.

We all know the Premier League is a competitive league and that every game is competitive.

The City project is much more than about signing a single player with a strong name, that would eventually cost a lot more.

In football, contact is normal, especially in England.