Neymar is the most important player in our national team. His absence is felt when he doesn't play. Same holds true for Barcelona. Such is his impact.

Playing in Barca is impressive: they're in the Champions League; everyone talks about this team. You will not find another club like it in the world.

Brazil needs a player like Neymar at his best on the pitch because Neymar on the pitch gives more confidence to the other players.

It's a bad feeling, losing a World Cup.

It's in the knockout games that you discover who the great players really are.

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

It's not easy to win a Cup. Brazil spent a long time, over 20 years, before winning it, so it's not easy. The Cup is hard: it's each 4 years.

I'm very satisfied with everything I have done with both Barcelona and Brazil.

If you ask me if I would like to see Isco in Barcelona, I would say yes.

Zidane is a very great player, a very calm player.

Things tend to get easier for Barcelona with Lionel Messi on the pitch.

Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.

I would like to play with Messi; it would be amazing. He is the best of the world, the one who makes more differences.

A man without a family has nothing from life. I need my family in order to enjoy life when things are going well. And when things are not going well, they give me support.

I'm a quiet, shy person and not someone who likes the limelight.

I take part in every training session, morning and afternoon, to make sure I'm fit enough.

Sometimes you'll get a player who's marking you tightly, and he'll even apologise and say, 'My coach told me to stick close to you and mark you. I know you're a great player.' But I tell him it's fine and to do what he has to do.

I advise everyone with plans to visit Brazil for the Olympics in Rio - to stay home. You'll be putting your life at risk here. This is without even speaking about the state of public hospitals and all the Brazilian political mess.

Eden Hazard would be a perfect signing for Real Madrid, not only for his talents as a player but also as a leader.

My father never left my side; on the street, on the beach, he was always with me. He helped me on the road to becoming a professional, and now I play just for him.

Louis Van Gaal is a great coach. He has inspired a lot of players to give their best, shown them how to play.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

When Brazil lose, someone has to be guilty, and it's always Rivaldo. It's different with Romario. He plays in Brazil, and they love him more. I'm treated like a foreign player.

When I was playing in Santa Cruz or Mogi Mirim, they told me I was not the best. Nobody believed in me. The others would always be the top stars. But I did not let that get me down.

It's impossible to describe Messi. I like him so much, and I always say I feel so sad because he never won the World Cup with Argentina. It is an award he deserves because a world-class player like him must be a world champion.

Barcelona players know how to summon up Messi into the game, letting him rest in periods of the match and then using his services at vital moments when he shows up in the middle of the pitch to create his magical plays.

I've played lots of games carrying an injury, but people don't value what I do for Barcelona.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

The pressure in Brazil is a little complicated, a little menacing.

I don't have many dreams to fulfil because I've won almost everything, but I was born a winner and want to achieve things with Olympiakos.

I will be busy playing, getting in shape, and learning English, and being in a smaller town will help me do that. And I want the challenge of trying to get Bolton into Europe for the first time in their history.

It gives me great pleasure to see my name linked with clubs like Manchester United and Milan.

When you get onto the ball, people think three or four times before deciding whether to try and tackle you. Your opponents respect you, and your markers give you a couple of metres of space.

If I could choose anywhere in Brazil, the club I'd play for is Palmeiras.

I'm proud to have played 14 matches at the World Cup with the number ten shirt and to have scored eight goals.

Winning the Olympic gold was amazing.

I don't want to rely on what people say about me to feel good; playing's what I really enjoy.

In football, the stronger team is the one which wins.

Me, if I'm in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don't have so much speed.

Nowadays, it's hard to know if a player really deserves the money spent on him, because transfer values are high.

At Milan, I'm giving everything I've got during training to earn myself a chance. I honestly don't know why I can't find space in the team, even on the bench.

When I came to Spain, people thought I would fly home again after the holidays, stay up all night celebrating, and would have no discipline. That may be true of other players, but it's not my way.

The number 10 player is the star of the team, and you have more responsibility.

I'm very fond of Olympiakos, and I would be delighted to end my career in Piraeus.

Lots of great players, like Zidane and Figo, are about the same age as me.

I became famous when I scored that goal for Mogi Mirim direct from the kick-off against Noroeste. It was 18 April 1993, if I'm not mistaken. After that, my name was in all the papers.

I don't think about being a goalscorer. Basically, it doesn't interest me. It's nice to score, of course, but I don't go round thinking about this.

Milan, Inter, Roma, Juventus, Lazio - all of the big Italian clubs would be nice, but my son has a lot of work to do to show himself off and demonstrate his talent. Let's take things slowly.

I am not ashamed to say I will speak up to defend myself.

In Brazil, you know that only first place counts; in other countries, you might celebrate coming second, third, or fourth, but not in Brazil.