Quotes from Fernandinho

It's good when you score goals because you are helping your team. For yourself as well, it's good, but the most important thing is the strength of the team.

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.

As a human, as a professional player, you have to improve every day, every training session, every game.

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

To be able to battle is very important.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Pellegrini is always calm; if you have problems, he will try to resolve it.

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.

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

When you play on bad surfaces, you have to show your character and keep your concentration for the whole 90 minutes.

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.

In football, contact is normal, especially in England.

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

The Premier League is always like that - you never know what can happen! Even at the top of the table and bottom of the table.

We all know the Premier League is so tough and many, many things can happen - right until the last game of the season.

If you want to win the Premier League, you have to win away as well.

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

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

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.

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