Quotes from Ruben Neves

My family have done a lot of sacrifices to put me where I want to be. Everything I do is for them.

It is good to have aspirations, but we have to be real.

Obviously the Champions League is the top of football, where everyone wants to play.

The Championship allows you to grow as a player. It is very competitive.

2018 was the most important year because we won the Championship.

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.

Becoming a father is incredible. There is no explanation for the feeling.

Any player likes to feel good.

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.

For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.

I feel the wolf is a very competitive animal, very intelligent. He works hard to achieve his goals and protects his family.

Better than Zidane? That is impossible! It is always good for us to hear things like that, but we have to be real. I know where I am.

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

When I was nine years old, my father went to Spain to work for three years, and I was in Portugal. He has a sports store. I only saw him once a month, which was difficult. I was alone with my mother and my sister, who is younger than me.

Every player wants to be there in the national team.

When you come from younger teams, and you reach the main squad, there are always difficulties you have to deal with, like the intensity, the maturity, and the experience of the players.

In Portugal, there are just four or five teams who have 30,000 fans in their stadium, but teams in the middle of the table don't have many fans.

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.

Mourinho is a legend at Porto.