Quotes from Kaka

Playing for Madrid is a great challenge.

Let's say I don't need to chase the ball as much as before. You learn to find the shortcuts.

If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

It has been tough when I have been with the national team and we have gone to play in some of the poorer areas in Brazil. You see people come and watch us train or play a match, and then you know some of them are going home with no food on the plate.

The best player I have ever played with? That's Ronaldo, il Fenomeno.

I have been a big admirer of Coutinho, and he can be a very important player for Liverpool and Brazil.

Playing motivates players.

I would say Neymar is my favourite young player. I love the way that he plays.

I use a few phrases to let people know a little bit about who I am. One of them is I belong to Jesus, which is a phrase I always wear on a shirt during the most important moments of my professional career.

At Real Madrid, everything gets taken to extremes, as much for the good things as the bad things, so you have to adapt to the way that the press and the fans live through different situations.

I am always in love with Milan. The relationship with the team, with the club, and with these fans is beautiful. It's weird for a Brazilian to have a relationship like that with an Italian club.

In Brazil, we think we can help by using our image, the fact that we are very well known, to help others. I think lots of footballers want to do something, but many don't know how.

Often, players at clubs I have been at have asked me for prayers or advice. I prefer to show them things rather than to say things; with my actions, not my words.

It's not easy to decide what is best for you in the future.

AC Milan will always be a great team.

When I talk to my colleagues from the national team, they always talk to me about Real Madrid.

I learned that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.

Every championship that Brazil participates, we have the responsibility to win - every time. So when we don't win, it's considered as a failure.

There are a lot of big players and a lot of big teams, but I don't know if I'll get the opportunity to play in the Premier League.

I have been in many teams that have had loads of talent but did not make it through and been with teams that did not have that much talent and ended up being champions.

Neymar will never fail to have technique and creativity.

When I do an interview, when I appear on camera, I want to be the same person as the one you meet personally and say, 'He is really the same person I saw on television.'

I'm very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.

The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.