Bernardo Silva Quotes

You try and pick up something from everyone you work with and I grew up watching Jame Carragher and it was such an honour to train with Liverpool's first team.

I had a lot of dealings with Bergkamp. I started with the under-17s at Ajax, and he was the assistant coach. Once or twice a week, we had individual one-to-one training sessions. You just watched Bergkamp. When you see him in training, he had skills that a guy just shouldn't be allowed to have.

Zidane is not a coach, but he is a teacher.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

An internship with Pep Guardiola would be a huge present.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I'm a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I enjoy being a teammate.

Learning to be a Liverpool player comes with experience.

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

From my youth team all the way through, I was encouraged to play that way by Keith Hill when I was at Barnsley, and then Roberto Martinez at Everton, through to Gareth Southgate when he was in charge of the England Under-21s.

Working under Pep Guardiola, a chance like that doesn't come along too often. That's no disrespect to Mauricio Pochettino, but the people that Pep has worked with grow as players.

Salzburg improved me as a player, and I learnt so much there. I got a really tactical education.

From an early stage in my career, if you're talking about picking up knowledge, it would have been via Ian Greaves who was involved in my success as a young player at Bolton. And working under managers such as Bobby Gould and George Graham helped me to expand my knowledge at bit more.

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

For me to be able to play football was a gift.

Pep Guardiola is like going to university. I spent a year with him at City, learning something new every day. On the playing field, watching videos or at any time, when he approaches you and explains things to you. He has no problem teaching someone at 34 years old, as I was, like someone who is 18. He is a great teacher.

I'm a football fanatic. I love the game of football. I love learning new things, and I love being taught things. So I try to learn as much as I can, and even at a young age, I was really focused on how to be better and trying to learn all the techniques.

I had great relationships with all the four coaches I played under at Real Madrid. They all helped me improve, but if I had to pick the best, I would pick Ancelotti.

I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

Playing for Barcelona's academy was a very important time for me and my career, as I learned a great deal here.

I like football, and I like good players.

I work on my whole game and learn from the people around me, who I've benefited from tremendously, or the new players who come in to the club.

Tuchel shows me how to move and what I could do better. He wants to take me to absolute top level.

I came from amateur football.