Ruben Dias

“The teams that learn better are the teams that grow better.”

“I like to outdo myself and I like to play always on the red line.”

“Football is not about what you deserve, it is more about what you take.”

“There's no doubt that individual skills and abilities make all the difference, but at the end of the day the most important thing is our ability to connect with each other and work together.”

“We need to take the good out of everything and if this makes us push even harder individually then we will be just better collectively so we just have to see the good side every time.”

“To finish the club season with the Champions League, it's all obviously a dream for everybody.”

“First and foremost, you need a strong team if you want to succeed at a tournament as big as the World Cup. You can have all the individual strengths in the world but what really matters is how strong you are as a team.”

“Trust is given. Trust is earned.”

“I am an extremely motivated person, just for no reason, or for all the reasons in the world.”

“I believe that the right people to lead, they're born with it.”

“You can always play good, but to go through in the Champions League, you need something else. I guess that something else is having the details. The details make a big difference in these competitions.”

“Sometimes when the result is not the best we need to know if the process was good enough.”

“You can have the best players in the competition, but if you don't know how to make the most of the strengths of each player, then you won't be able to operate properly as a team. People will see you as just another ordinary team.”

“It's the other team not even making one shot on goal. The thing that gives me the most pleasure is that my keeper doesn't make a save.”

“Someone who loves football, as a player, a person who loves football as well, it's great to have someone leading you that makes you learn a lot, and makes you enjoy even more the way you play, the way your team plays.”

“We always need to keep pushing and there is always room to get better.”

“Success comes with no big long-term expectations, it comes with the next day and then the next day.”

“I am a guy who likes to listen.”

“Obviously I have the motivation of being the best at what I do, the best in my position, to play for the best and to win with the best. I was taught to know how to work with that passion. The passion is in yourself, the passion was in me.”