Quotes About 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.

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.

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.

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

Festivals: Porto's big holiday is São João Day (for St. John the Baptist, the city's patron saint) on June 24. Festivities start the night of June 23 with partying and fireworks at Ponte Dom Luís I bridge, and continue on the 24th with a rabelo regatta.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.'