Top 55 Bruno Fernandes Quotes

For most people, it’s easy when you’re in front of the TV. It is easy – just look at the goalkeeper jump to his left so why don’t you shoot to the right? Yeah, I can shoot to the right but, on my mind, was the left and the goalkeeper saved it! It can happen! But the most important thing, for me, is to keep scoring.

I was really good, I had a coach who said to me, ‘If you want to be a top player, you will need to play as a central defender. If you want to be a good player, you will be a midfielder.’ I think he was wrong but, maybe as a central defender, I could be much better, I don’t know!

I am confident when I take the penalty otherwise I would pass for somebody else.

When you have strikers who move a lot, and they give you the chance to play balls for them, it is really good.

At Old Trafford you warm up with nobody in the stands, you hear nothing in the tunnel, and then you enter the pitch and you hear an incredible noise.

What goes on in the pitch, out of it, for me, it’s past.

Of course every player wants a hat-trick.

I know everyone is talking about them like it’s easy but you can lose a final with a penalty.

Yes, it was my dream to play in the Premier League and fortunately for me my dream is also to play for Manchester United.

It’s not enough just to be talented, or to work hard, or to be mentally strong. You have to combine absolutely everything. You have to live football, completely.

My target is to score the most goals I can and assist my team-mates to score to.

I play midfielder, playmaker, even second striker: where I am needed and where I can be most useful.

We want to show our best qualities we can but the most important thing for us, for the team, is winning.

You look in the past and when I’m younger, you look at the players who play for Manchester United and you see the biggest stars in the world.

It doesn’t matter who takes the penalty as long as the team scores.

People can say what they think, I don’t care.

I looked at Manchester with more interest when Cristiano was here because it’s normal when you have Portuguese players in some teams, you look at them more than other teams.

It’s great to have Cristiano. He makes any team stronger.

I think any player who joins Manchester United wants to win everything; I want to win every competition that Manchester United compete in.

Of course if I score I’m happy this is for sure.

You can be better every day. If not, I will not come to training every day.

When you have an individual trophy, of course, you are doing really well and deserve the credit but that credit goes to the team because they help you do better and better.

I think everyone knows what it means to play a derby – it doesn’t matter which derby it is.

Growing up, my father was never interested in how many goals I scored, how many passes I made, but only in how many mistakes I made, and how I could be more efficient.

I grew up with my brother who is five years older, and so I grew up playing with him and with his friends. Most of the time, I wouldn’t play because he didn’t want me to play with his friends – I don’t know if he was afraid that I was too good for them!

I will never be tired to play.

Penalties are part of the game, you know. You need to score. You have the chance but you need to score.

I think the most important thing is to help the team and if you help the team it’s okay.

I’m a Cristiano Ronaldo fan and he’s a player I’ve always followed.

You make your own reality.

There are those who say that defeats teach a lot, but also learning to win is not bad.

My vision of coming to Manchester United is that I’m at one of the best clubs in the world, for me, the best club in England.

A team changes when everyone pushes together for the same side.

I want to win every time, this mentality will be with me for the rest of my life.

I came to Manchester to win trophies.

I want to be the best I can and if it is possible be remembered like one of the best in Manchester.

When Cristiano burst on to the scene here in Manchester, he spent a good chunk of his early career here and enjoyed so much success. That’s why it was a dream of mine to play for Manchester United and I’m very pleased to be here because it’s a childhood dream come true.

When you come to a new club you always want to score, and the first goal is special. It doesn’t matter how the goal is scored, but important is the goal’s worth.

I don’t care about the transfer market.

I see people talking about Bruno not doing so well against the ‘big six.’ People have said Bruno gives the ball away too many times when we lose a game.

It’s always pressure to take a pen, doesn’t matter if it’s against City, or another team. It’s always pressure to take the pens.

Pressure always has to be present in our day-to-day and we have to be under pressure to improve every day.

I have a lot of players I like to see. For example, in my first few years, the player I think is the one everyone liked and always will like is Ronaldinho. For me, he is the player with the capacity to take you and put you in front of the TV, and you will stay for hours. For hours!

In Portugal, you couldn’t always find Premier League kits, and if you could, they were really expensive.

One player doesn’t change a team.

When I received the call saying: ‘Bruno, you have the chance of moving to Manchester’ I called my wife, my brother, my sister, my mother and just started crying. But I was crying through happiness.

If you talk about stadiums that everyone knows, the most historic are San Siro and Old Trafford.

I look for every game in the same way. And I think the league is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. So you don’t have to score or win against the big six – you have to score and win against everyone.

The most important target is the trophies. Trophies will be more important than scoring goals.

It doesn’t matter how you score, when the ball touches the net it’s a goal.

For me, it was impressive how Iniesta finished his career without the Ballon d’Or. With everything he won, it is difficult for me to understand!

The position I play is to do that, assist and score when you can.

I think you can always learn every day, it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Because of Cristiano, my dream team in England was United.

The one I liked to watch and follow was Iniesta, because Iniesta is a mix between an eight and a 10. It is a way I can do better, between eight and 10. It is the guy who always likes to have the ball, take the risks, and I think Iniesta was one of the best in the world.