Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Paulinho - Page 2

I have always been very calm and with all the triumphs I have had I have always been sure to thank my colleagues and take things in a humble way. It is only because of this humility that I have achieved so much.

I feel I am ready to experience football at the highest level in Europe and the opportunity to play in England is a dream.

Football is a game where you have to do a bit of everything if you want your team to have the edge.

I've always looked at what Lampard does, and to me is a huge phenomenon - the way he hits the ball, what positions he takes up - he really is incredible.

We are not going to compare one player to another but my way of playing is a lot more Lampard than Busquets.

I have been told you don't have time to think too much when you get the ball in England. In practice it looks even more dynamic than on TV.

It really is one of my qualities, moving into different areas of the field, picking up opponents as well as helping to attack.

If you look at my career it has always been about overcoming difficulties in different places.

I am a player who helps in defence but I have played in a more attacking position during my career and I like to be close the opposition area.

I promise hard work and I will do everything to help my team mates.

In a year with him I played in my position two or three times and I played well. But that's not to say that I had a problem with Pochettino. It was his decision.

Playing alongside Messi is special for me. He's a player I always wanted to play with. I have played against him with Brazil, but to play alongside him is a privilege.

When I went from Tottenham to China a lot of people said that was it, my career was over. I had a couple of other offers at the time but they were both loans and I would have had to go back at the end. I just wanted to play.

I want to take advantage of every year I have at Barcelona. I don't see any other place where I'd be better off.

I am very good friends with Oscar and David Luiz, and Ramires at Chelsea is another one I see.

It's a great pleasure to be linked to such a great club like Tottenham.

As for Iniesta, he does things in training and in games that I've never seen before. He is an example to follow. You think he might touch the ball four times and yet he only makes one touch. He's unpredictable.

Matches are decided by details and you have to be ready to create spaces and help open up defences. It is what I have to do.

In football you just never know what's next.

For a footballer, not playing is like a fish not being in the water.

I have always fought to play for great clubs and to play for the Brazilian national team.

I hope to build a beautiful story here with Spurs like I did with Corinthians.

At the end of the day, money's never the most important thing.

Football without challenges isn't football.

I consider myself privileged to play alongside the best in the world.

Lampard is a great player, not only for Chelsea, but in world football.

It is special to play alongside the best footballer in the world.

I had a good first season at Tottenham, but in the second there wasn't a sequence of games. So when I didn't feel happy, I waited for the season to end and then asked the president to let me go to try another challenge.

When I left Tottenham for China i knew I would be further away but my main objective was to play because I wasn't playing and I decided to move on.

I am very grateful for how I have been welcomed at Barcelona.

Gareth Bale is such a great player. I had watched him before on telly and you could see how special he is.

I will always have a very special feeling towards Chinese fans.

My life's been a rollercoaster.

Fans who showed me a lot of affection during my three years at Corinthians continue to follow me.

I am very happy that a great club like Barcelona is interested in me, as that is priceless.

When you change teams, cities or countries it's obvious there's a period of adaption, but some players can adapt quicker than others.

I have to play. Doesn't matter where.

I have been playing since I was five and it is a large part of my life.

I had criticism in different clubs I played for. When i played in Corinthians, Tottenham and Barcelona there was some criticism but I always did my work, trying to do my best.

Players always wants to play.