Quotes About Brazilians

Brazilian football has always been very much admired in Japan and, of course, after my participation and so many other Brazilians, it was like they created a new style of play in homage to Brazilian football.

Barcelona are a great club, and Brazilians have always done well there.

I'm not going to change my style of play because it might bother some people. That is just the way we Brazilians are.

I want to go to Brazil, I want to fight top Brazilians in Brazil. I want to go to Russia, fight Khabib in Russia.

A lot of Brazilians are very superstitious, especially footballers. I'm the same. I always step on to the pitch with my right foot first.

I had a coconut on the way, which was another first for me. A drink and food all in one. It didn't look like the normal coconuts you win at fairgrounds. There was no hair on it. I don't know if that's how they grow here or if it's that Brazilians hate hair on anything and they've waxed them.

There are many promotions in Russia, and they are taking Brazilians to fight there. We need to do something about the Brazilian market, make it stronger to produce new fighters. We need new talents competing here, not there. They have no other option but fight outside of Brazil because there are few options here.

You can't hold a conversation in Brazil without jokes . . . you knowhow Brazilians are. Brazilians are women, booze, soccer, carnival, and dirty jokes.

It's no secret that the UFC doesn't promote Brazilians.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

The joy of the Brazilians in football is a wonderful thing no matter where you go.

Our government is concerned about the future. Everything we do today is not aimed at tomorrow but rather at a future that preserves the living conditions of Brazilians.

I am delighted to be joining Paris Saint-Germain, a club where so many Brazilians have played and helped write the club's history. I will do everything I can to continue that tradition and write my own name into the club's history books.

When I was a child I watched the Italian league a lot because there were many Brazilians there.

European and U.S. environmentalists insist that the forest should never be cut down or used—it should remain, as far as possible, a land without people. In an ecological version of therapeutic nihilism, they want to leave the river basin to its own devices. Brazilians I have encountered are usually less than enthusiastic about this proposal.

Style-wise, Valle Nevado is what can only be described as 'hip international.' Brazilians, Chileans and Europeans make the place seem like an electronic music festival transported to an remote Andean valley. Huge speakers blare out thumping, bass-heavy music, while promotoras stalk the staircases selling everything from Red Bull to mobile phones.

I don't think Pele was the ultimate hero for our generation, he is the ultimate hero of every generation of Brazilians.

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.