Fernandinho Quotes

When you're on the pitch, you should never give up and concede easy goals.

In the Champions League you need a certain level of perseverance, strength, dedication to scoring over 90 minutes.

That's the way I've always played the game from when I was a kid. It didn't matter if we were up or down in the game, how it was going, how you felt, you played until the end.

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

We just play, man. We go out there and we fight no matter the situation.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

I remember my first Arsenal training session and Sol Campbell going straight through me. I had a bit of a bruise, but I got straight back up and carried on. I didn't want to show them that it hurt.

It was playing on the varzea where I learned to be a warrior, to fight for every ball, and then to never give it away.

We need to show character whenever we concede a goal and try to make a comeback.

Never concede the putt that beats you.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it?

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part.... The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

He who voluntarily confronts tremendous odds must have very great internal resources to draw upon

Test cricket tests your ability as a cricketer but also bring out your true character.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.