Filipe Luis Quotes

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.

Sometimes when you play on the wing it gets a bit isolated and you can't help as much. But if you play a bit more central I can get the ball a lot more and help a lot more.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

I don't like to put much pressure on myself but yeah that is my sort of football: get the ball, run with it, use my pace, create opportunities, cross.

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

If you've got someone like Thierry Henry in your team, you get him on the ball.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

When I go into games as a forward, my job is really clear, and I just have to execute. But as a midfielder, you get to sort of enjoy the game more, and you get to feel the game and dictate the play.

I liked mostly to play football on the ground and have a little bit of playing tactics rather than just up and down, long balls and second balls. That's not really my game.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

I like to play wide, but as a youth, I played more in the middle as a 10.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

If you want to play dominant football, you need to get the ball, think fast, and play quick combinations in small spaces.

Messi often has a crowd of opponents around him, but with Neymar on the pitch, too, at least two of those opposition players will have to be aware of him.

Sometimes, if a striker is not scoring as many goals, they can still be in good form.

I love good flowing football where the whole team is engaged.

Generally, you're going into every game with excitement. You know you're going to play forward and not going to defend. You're going to try to create and score goals.

You have to win on the ball.