Top 62 Porto Quotes & Sayings

When I was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side - but it was Celtic. I've never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable!

Mr. Mourinho is a wonderful coach and did great things at Porto, winning trophies, and I will respect that.

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

I have huge respect for Porto, a great club that's always in the hunt for titles, but they aren't Real Madrid, one of the biggest clubs in the world.

Porto is a club which offers maximum stability to help me show my best level.

When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.

I was seven and a half, nearly eight when I arrived. I was always a Porto fan, so they were 12 extremely big years for me.

When I left Porto, I knew that I wanted to return to Real Madrid and play.

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

I left Brazil very early, at age 18, to go to Japan and I spent three-and-a-half years there. Then I went to Porto, everything happened so fast in my life, there was recognition throughout Europe.

I want to rematch 'Cigano' in Brazil, at the Arena do Gremio in Porto Alegre. It would be a dream come true. Fighting in my hometown, where I was born and raised.

Yes, it's possible that I will end my career at FC Porto.

If you are lucky, you go to a team like Porto to mature. And if things don't go well for you, others take your place.

Porto is my team since I was a young boy. I was in the stands for all the matches. I was too young to go to the Champions League final in 2004, but I celebrated afterwards. I watch all their games when I can. At some point in my career, I want to go back.

If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.

I went to see a Porto game in the old Estadio das Antas and I loved it all, the environment and the fans.

I played for four years in Porto and our biggest rivals were Benfica. But I always had respect for the club, I don't hate Benfica.

Porto helped me quite a bit but I worked really hard, with lots of enthusiasm and humility and with my mind always focused on returning to Real Madrid. It was a fantastic year on a personal level.

I learned a lot with Andre Villas-Boas at Porto. He is very intelligent tactically. He was almost so well informed about the opponents that we pretty much knew everything about them when we went out on to the pitch. It was scary how much we knew.

In Porto, when we were preparing, the players guessed the team that was going to play.

I have scored many goals with my head, ever since my time with River Plate in Argentina and then after at Porto and Atletico Madrid.

Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and discussion to come. But whatever the outcome of ensuing criticisms or objections, The World Republic of Letters -- empire more than republic, as Casanova shows -- is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism, with which it stands comparison.

I was close to signing for FC Porto where I really wanted to go.

Following Real Madrid, I support Porto.

I had the chance to go to Sevilla, Inter and Porto.

My arrival at Porto wasn't easy and I had some difficulties. I spoke the same language but I felt very lonely. Two months later I caught tuberculosis yet at the time no doctor at Porto knew for sure what was wrong with me. I trained and played with the B team.

I'm happy being at City. I wanted to go to Porto before but my father said that coming here we would have a great future. It was the right decision.

In Porto, it's a tourist city. It's close to the river, the ocean as well. There's a lot of history.

By the time that I left Porto I had a few offers, and I probably chose the club that I shouldn't have gone to.

On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.

I'm very happy at Porto. It's the city I grew up in. It is my own club and I don't think it is easy to leave it.

I will always continue to work hard and keep my feet on the ground, regardless of whether I stay at Porto.

At Porto, I play out wide, on the right, with two other attackers. But I can play in any position in the attack, I have even played in the middle before.

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.

I decided to go to Zenit because I had won almost every competition at Porto and I like new challenges in my career.

Porto prepared me really well and this didn't go unnoticed in Spain, as before I went to Real Madrid the club were known as a graveyard for centre-backs. They had amazing centre-backs that had failed there.

If the time has come to leave Porto, the club and its fans will forever have a place in my heart. I can only thank them for all the affection they've shown me.

I'm used to playing out on the right for Zenit. I also played out there a lot for Porto.

When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.

Lopetegui called me and convinced me to go to Porto. It was the best decision of my life.

Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”

In Porto, you have to eat francesinha. Translated, it means 'little French girl.' It's this sandwich of bread, ham, and a lot of beef sausage or other meats. Then you put melted cheese on the top. The special thing about it is the sauce. Each house makes a special secret sauce, and it's usually a bit spicy.

In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

Mourinho is a legend at Porto.

There are a lot of seasons when Porto have been outstanding.

To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute

Walking the streets of Porto and speaking with the top engineers at Veniam, I am struck by the passion that they bring to the world with their designs.

I hope to stay many years in Manchester United and make history in this club. When I was at Porto and Atletico Madrid, I always wanted to improve to achieve my dream of playing in a team like this.

At Porto, under Jose Mourinho, we won everything with a fantastic group of football players. Mourinho built that. He made us succeed, won everything. This has a big impact.

Porto improve every single player because this is a very demanding club.

If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me.

I didn't take the Porto job nor the Chelsea job because Jose made the same steps.

I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans.

I can only promise one thing: I will never celebrate a goal against Porto because of my respect for the fans and the club.

The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

At the time I was in Japan I was left to choose between Porto and Atletico Madrid but I preferred Porto because I thought it would be easier to adapt.

I have a lot of affection for Porto but who would not want to play for Barcelona with the quality they have?

I spent seven years with Jose and we were part of a very good technical staff. We went to top class clubs at Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan and worked with top players who gave us such a tremendous volume of success.

Every team dreams of playing the Champions League final - Porto just as much as Real Madrid.

After three years in Japan there were some options to play in Europe, but I chose Porto because when I was 15 I went to their stadium once and said to myself, 'One day I will play here.'