Fabinho Quotes

I try to look up as quickly as possible, try to read the situation, but football is so quick, it's just a split-second, and then you decide.

Arsenal wanted me to be a controller in the midfield, an Emmanuel Petit-type.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.

Usually, the most intelligent player is a midfielder.

In the Premier League a little half a second can punish you and you just have to be focused for all 90 or 95 minutes, whatever it may be.

Especially as a goalkeeper, when you are closed down, you have to make a decision in a split second, and sometimes it is better to make the wrong one rather than wait and see what's happening.

I love watching English football. There are teams in the Premier League that play a style similar to Spanish teams - Arsenal, for example - but in general, it's much quicker; there's so much pace.

The ball is just whipped off you in the Premier League. You have to maintain focus.

Decisions need to be made in milliseconds out on the field, and you need to almost know what the other guy is thinking and exactly what he's going to do.

Competition is to be expected at a club like Arsenal.

I believe I can be a great player for Manchester United.

I've said it a few times over the years that I'm very happy in midfield.

I'm an attacking midfielder.

As a midfielder at United, I had to pass the ball forward, and yes, it did not always work. It did not always mean putting a chance on a plate for the strikers. It was up to them to get on the ball and score goals. Was it easy? No, but we were playing for United. It was not supposed to be easy.

In international football, chances don't come along very often.

I don't take the ball in the middle of the pitch and dribble past six guys.

Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the difference.

Guardiola has helped me so when I receive the ball, I have space.

It's why the Premier League is watched so much all over the world: because it has more pace and more physicality than in any other league.

The players on the pitch are the ones who decide who takes the spot-kick.

The first Premier League season is always tough for anyone.

When you play for Manchester United, the pressure's on every week.

I like to be involved as much as I can in the game, and in the middle, you're definitely the heartbeat of the team. When you're on the right, you can go minutes without seeing the ball, and that's a long time when you're out on the pitch.

I love watching Santi Cazorla.

I prefer to play in midfield, whether that is attacking midfield or defensive midfield.