David Luiz Quotes

I have been watching Brazil since I was a little kid.

Brazil remains a reference to the sport.

Brazil versus Argentina is always a great game, with great football and scoring chances.

Playing in the Copa America would be an important thing for me, just like the Olympics, because Brazil has never won the gold medal there.

I always see Argentina with great players.

Argentina is a powerhouse in soccer.

I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.

Obviously, I wasn't born when Pele was playing at World Cups, but I have watched plenty of videos, both of him and other great players.

We're trying to win a World Cup for our country, and I think everyone who supports football can get behind that.

What I love the most is playing with Argentina.

Winning an official World Cup with the South African team had become my burning ambition.

Any player would want to be involved in games against Argentina.

I want to win all sorts of titles and then the World Cup with the Brazilian national team.

I know one thing - Neymar is a star.

Me and a lot of my team-mates still think and speak about the World Cup in 1994, when Sweden finished third.

I've missed a lot of football.

Brazil is a fantastic football country.

Neymar is a good player.

When you say the word 'Neymar' around the world, everyone knows who he is and what he does.

My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.

For Brazil, the World Cup really starts in the knockout rounds.

Yes, I would have loved to win it, but I have great memories from World Cups. The 2007 tournament - my first - was very special.

Playing for Brazil is a huge pleasure. I think it's a huge pride.

I'm delighted to play with Neymar.

I was a Liverpool fan as a kid.