Roberto Firmino Quotes

Working abroad made me better.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up.

The benefits of studying abroad are huge. You can pick up a new language, develop a love for another culture, and pick up new skills, hobbies and work experience to boost your CV.

With what I have learned in Italy, if I have the chance to learn something more in England I think it would make me a more complete, better player.

Moving abroad brings you on both as a player and a person.

Moving from Dubai to the Congo was one of the best things that happened to me, it's a shock to be confronted by the contrast in wealth and culture, and it's hard, but I loved it and it influenced me a lot.

I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there.

I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.

My home is Montreal. I will stay in Montreal and continue to make movies in Montreal. But it's also very healthy for Canadian filmmakers to work outside the country. You learn so much.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.