“Choose kindness over aggression.”

Greatness, it’s all in the details.

I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I’m nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that.

Playing against an Italian team is harder than all the other leagues. The Italians won’t score lots of goals, but they won’t concede many, either.

I try to not take myself too seriously and just have fun when I’m not playing.

My deepest respect to the clubs who considered having me.

It doesn’t matter if it’s rain or sweat, we got work to do!

I wanted to show the world, to show United that I was ready to play and I was motivated to play. This comeback just showed that I left United, but the power of my heart was still here, to be honest.

I’m someone who says what he thinks.

When you lose someone you love, you don’t think the same way. And that’s why I say I enjoy life: because it goes very fast.

It’s always good to play with big players, you know.

I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things.

Sport might not be the answer. But it is a symbol of optimism and hope.

Because I’m fairly big, I like to use my body. So I’ll control the ball, even when there’s a player on me, and then I’ll pass.

When you say the word ‘Neymar’ around the world, everyone knows who he is and what he does.

I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer.

We can not love everyone and be loved by everyone. It would be perfection, and nothing is perfect in this world.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Truth allows no choice.