A biography for Ruben Diashasn’t been written yet.
“You can have all the success in the world alone. But if you have no one to share it with, what does it serve?”
“If you think too much ahead, you might trap yourself.”
“I didn't learn from just one, two or three players. I learned from 10, 20 or 30. I learned from everything I saw.”
“I've had to improve my talent through the years but for me, it's 50-50 - I had to improve my game technically, but I also had to improve my game in terms of relationships with everyone else.”
“Messi is a phenomenal player and as a professional, you want to play against all those sorts of names.”
“If you want to be at the top, if you want to be number one, you need to play against some of the best.”
“That strong mentality of turning fear into power, turning difficulty into something good, turning negatives into positives, that is something that comes from my father.”
“My granddad was a very humble person but still, to take all that time of his life to take care of me and help me every day, it was something very special for me.”
“If you said to me that in your first year in the Premier League you can win the Player of the Year, it would be amazing. But, what I really want in my first year is to win the Premier League. That would be my biggest achievement.”
“Since you begin a season, you always have one goal: to win it all. If you don't have that goal, you're not part of the top five clubs in the world.”
“That is who Bernardo Silva is. A guy who is equally talented as the others, but willing to make sacrifices that not many others are willing to.”
“I strongly believe that with or without an armband, everyone should be their own captain.”
“Obviously, you have World Cups, you have European Championships, but the Champions League, with your club, it's always, always, very special.”
“It's not a matter of being happy or unhappy, I just need to be there for the team when the team needs me.”
“Only at the end can you say where you got to.”
“I'm just a player who tries to play.”
“Obviously I speak English well, that was not a major problem for me, but it's always different the confidence you have speaking your own language.”
“Our defence works the same way every game: a desire to win, a desire to not concede, a desire to make the opponents feel like it is very tough to get to our goal. These things happen with the right mentality.”
“You have to train with the best if you want to be the best.”
“The most important thing is to have players who think like you and have the same mentality, knowing how important the team is and knowing: 'If you fail, I will be there for you.'”