Quotes from Ederson

I have gained Selecao recognition, eventually. I'm very proud of it, and now I want to replicate my Benfica's performance for my country.

Representing the Selecao is a very great expectation, being able to play is even greater.

There is always room for improvement.

When I was nine or ten, I had a chat with my coach and I asked if I could play in goal. I started playing as a goalkeeper and it was love at first sight. Only a goalkeeper knows how it is.

When a child falls over and gets injured, he gets back up and carries on playing. It's no different for me.

At Benfica, I started playing because the starting goalkeeper got injured.

I don't practise it that much, maybe two or three times a week. It's a natural skill that I have, to hit long balls, so I don't need to practise it every day.

In old times, not many keepers could play with their feet, but modern football requires those skills because it's changed.

When I started playing football, I started as a left-defender. Maybe I wasn't very talented in that position but I knew that something good could come out of it. I got some skills with my feet and that helped me a lot later on. Those qualities have helped me a lot in my career.

A striker can miss three or four chances and still score the fifth.

When I played in the Benfica youth teams, they would always call me to play in midfield if someone was missing and I didn't ever embarrass myself.

When a goalkeeper makes a mistake, there is no one to save the goal.

I am very happy to have been called up by the national team. It's indeed another achievement in my career and I've worked a lot and very hard for this moment.

Whether I use the long kick all depends on the moment, only at certain stages of the game.

When I started playing as a boy, a lot of people were asking, 'If you don't make it, what are you going to do?' But in my head, I was always repeating to myself, 'I'm going to become a football player.'

When I started to play in school, I didn't have an idol as such, I didn't really like football in my nursery days. I used to go three times a week due to my brother's influence and also because our friends used to go as well.

I'm good at penalties, either using power or technique when I'm shooting.

I started playing in goal because I 'struggled to run as fast as the strikers and the other players out there. I was 10 years old.

We study the shooters of the opponents - the team, the goalkeeping coach and the other goalkeepers.

If we do the build-up so well, it's because our players always offer me different options to pass the ball, so that makes it easier. With calm and with quality on the pass, it always works out. Of course, you need to have the courage and be very cool to play that way, because any mistake can end up in a goal conceded.

I have always had the dream to play in English football and now I'm going to make it true.

I think modern football has evolved a lot. Goalkeepers do several things during the game.

Guardiola is one of the best managers in the world.

I like everything about Manchester City.