Ruben Dias

“I was lucky enough to have a very devoted grandfather.”

“Fernandinho is, without a doubt, a reference for me in the dressing room. It will be a good role model to learn from, so I'll try to get as many learnings as I can from him.”

“Obviously the pressure around the Champions League final is always special, is always different.”

“Playing for City has surpassed all my expectations and it's an absolute pleasure to be part of such an incredible squad.”

“There is always room for improvement and there is always something to work for.”

“We know that a point is always a point, and it's not the worst scenario. Sometimes it happens.”

“I've never tried to aim for anything else than being who I am.”

“I had the chance of being in the 2018 World Cup in Russia. And I definitely felt a different perspective because it's one thing to watch it from the outside, you know how big it is, but then to actually live it and be there, it's just something else.”

“What I know now about this city is the way people breathe football... there is just something else here, something special. Even the grass. The environment. It is different. It goes a bit further in Manchester.”

“There is always a new opportunity to learn, a part of the game that you can analyse, to see a goal that a team suffers, how the team failed to try to prevent it or to see how it prevented it from happening.”

“We just want to win and you have to have the stomach to know that when it doesn't happen, you've just got to keep going.”

“At Benfica and with Portugal we play every game to win.”

“I am an aggressive player and I love what I do.”

“I think when you talk about a relationship between a striker and a defender it's all about the margins. Some guys it can be 50-50, but other times it can be 60-40, 70-30. Erling is probably one of the few where you have to be 100/0 against him, if it's 99 he will score.”

“I don't judge whoever comes in and just goes to the spa and just trains and goes home. If they feel good and feel they can reach their level, do it.”

“The Champions League is a big challenge.”

“For me, whoever plays it is the team that is playing and you play alongside the team, not with names.”

“Whatever needs to happen, whoever I need to shout to, whatever I need to do to motivate or bring everyone together, to make everyone around me better, I will do it.”

“When people speak to me, they see the mentality, they see the focus. They see how badly I want to be on top.”

“Cristiano, year after year, continues to be at a high level.”