Roberto Firmino Quotes

When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English.

I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.

I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a weird Irish accent.

The first few months in a new country are always really hard.

It was a big step for me to take, going away from my family to go and play in a different culture, and I understand why people don't do it.

The first season in a new country like England is very difficult.

My first year in Munich was definitely not easy.

When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were 'Hello' and 'Shut up.'

It was tough moving to Italy so young. You don't have much experience of life, you are leaving your family and everything behind to go to another country and another culture.

The only time I used to feel like an outsider was when I first went to India.

Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

When I was in fifth grade - so, about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark. And so not only did I have all new friends and all new surroundings, I didn't even understand what they were talking about, which was very difficult and kind of started me, I think, on my path to animation.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed - the language, the country - but it is up to me to adapt.

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.

It's difficult to adapt to Barcelona.

Finding your feet in a new country provides an enormous boost to your confidence and independence.

Going to Watford at such a young age and leaving everyone behind and being around new people was very different for me. Adapting was a challenge. I was staying in a boarding school and in a different culture that I wasn't used to. It was very hard to adapt, build confidence and change my attitude.

Moving to Liverpool was a new world for me. I had been living with my parents in Holland, and all of a sudden I was living in a foreign country on my own.

When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in English, which is not my native language.

I'm on the right track to completely adapting to England.

Everything has changed since I came to China.