Quotes by Rivaldo - Page 2

I mean no offence, but we know that the French league is not the same as the Spanish or English league, where there's more difficulty.
Rivaldo /
Difficulty
Offence
Know Where More
Spanish
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I know Tottenham are not among the biggest clubs in England, but they are considered a very good club to play for, a nice place to play.
Rivaldo /
Clubs
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I don't have many dreams to fulfil because I've won almost everything, but I was born a winner and want to achieve things with Olympiakos.
Rivaldo /
Achieve
Winner
Almost Everything
Won
Fulfil
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If Neymar doesn't leave PSG, he will never win anything important. Especially the Champions League, which is the most important competition.
Rivaldo /
Champions League
Champions
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It's not easy to win a Cup. Brazil spent a long time, over 20 years, before winning it, so it's not easy. The Cup is hard: it's each 4 years.
Rivaldo /
Brazil
Time Long Win
Cup
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In Brazil, you know that only first place counts; in other countries, you might celebrate coming second, third, or fourth, but not in Brazil.
Rivaldo /
Brazil
Celebrate
Fourth
Other Countries
Countries
First Place
Third
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I don't think about being a goalscorer. Basically, it doesn't interest me. It's nice to score, of course, but I don't go round thinking about this.
Rivaldo /
Score
Basically
Round
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I was very excited about the possibility of playing for Spurs and in England. I would like to thank the club for their efforts in trying to sign me.
Rivaldo /
England
Possibility
Spurs
Club
Efforts
Sign
Thank
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Playing in Barca is impressive: they're in the Champions League; everyone talks about this team. You will not find another club like it in the world.
Rivaldo /
Champions League
Impressive
World Will Find
Champions
Talks
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Neymar is the most important player in our national team. His absence is felt when he doesn't play. Same holds true for Barcelona. Such is his impact.
Rivaldo /
Absence
Barcelona
National Team
Holds
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Sometimes, a player and a coach can have a different opinion. In the end, the best interest of the end, the best interest of the club has to be kept in mind.
Rivaldo /
In The End
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At Milan, I'm giving everything I've got during training to earn myself a chance. I honestly don't know why I can't find space in the team, even on the bench.
Rivaldo /
Giving
Honestly
Milan
Training
Bench
Earn
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My father never left my side; on the street, on the beach, he was always with me. He helped me on the road to becoming a professional, and now I play just for him.
Rivaldo /
Beach
Always Me Father
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Everything is harder when you are a Nordestino. You have to work harder than anybody else because people will be judging you with much less mercy than the other players.
Rivaldo /
Harder
Judging
Mercy
Work People Will
Anybody
Anybody Else
Less
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A man without a family has nothing from life. I need my family in order to enjoy life when things are going well. And when things are not going well, they give me support.
Rivaldo /
Enjoy Life
Life Family Man
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When Brazil lose, someone has to be guilty, and it's always Rivaldo. It's different with Romario. He plays in Brazil, and they love him more. I'm treated like a foreign player.
Rivaldo /
Brazil
Guilty
Plays
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There was an offer from Tottenham when I was leaving Spain to go to Milan, and at the time, I chose to go to Milan because of their history and tradition in the world of football.
Rivaldo /
Football
Leaving
Milan
Spain
Time History World
Chose
Time History Football
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When I was playing in Santa Cruz or Mogi Mirim, they told me I was not the best. Nobody believed in me. The others would always be the top stars. But I did not let that get me down.
Rivaldo /
Cruz
Santa
Stars
Best Me Nobody
Nobody
Believed
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I became famous when I scored that goal for Mogi Mirim direct from the kick-off against Noroeste. It was 18 April 1993, if I'm not mistaken. After that, my name was in all the papers.
Rivaldo /
April
Mistaken
Papers
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When you get onto the ball, people think three or four times before deciding whether to try and tackle you. Your opponents respect you, and your markers give you a couple of metres of space.
Rivaldo /
Markers
Opponents
Deciding
Onto
Tackle
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Milan, Inter, Roma, Juventus, Lazio - all of the big Italian clubs would be nice, but my son has a lot of work to do to show himself off and demonstrate his talent. Let's take things slowly.
Rivaldo /
Clubs
Italian
Milan
Son
Talent
Be Nice
Demonstrate
Slowly
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When I came to Spain, people thought I would fly home again after the holidays, stay up all night celebrating, and would have no discipline. That may be true of other players, but it's not my way.
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All Night
Discipline
Spain
Be True
Celebrating
Holidays
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With persistence, dedication, and especially with the hand of God, I came to be recognized as the best player in the world, world champion, among many other important titles in the history of football.
Rivaldo /
Dedication
Persistence
Titles
Recognized
World Champion
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Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.
Rivaldo /
Messi
Score
Invent
Next Thing
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Neymar will leave Barca fans speechless. He could become an even better player than he was during the Confederations Cup with Brazil. He'll easily adapt to the style of the team and will be very happy there.
Rivaldo /
Brazil
Fans
Speechless
Team
Adapt
Better Player
Easily
Cup
Leave
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I will be busy playing, getting in shape, and learning English, and being in a smaller town will help me do that. And I want the challenge of trying to get Bolton into Europe for the first time in their history.
Rivaldo /
Smaller
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Barcelona players know how to summon up Messi into the game, letting him rest in periods of the match and then using his services at vital moments when he shows up in the middle of the pitch to create his magical plays.
Rivaldo /
Barcelona
Messi
Middle
Moments
Periods
Game
Create
Rest
Letting
Magical
Match
Plays
Services
Summon
Vital
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It's impossible to describe Messi. I like him so much, and I always say I feel so sad because he never won the World Cup with Argentina. It is an award he deserves because a world-class player like him must be a world champion.
Rivaldo /
Sad
Argentina
Champion
Impossible
Messi
Player
Award
Cup
Describe
Won
World Champion
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Sometimes you'll get a player who's marking you tightly, and he'll even apologise and say, 'My coach told me to stick close to you and mark you. I know you're a great player.' But I tell him it's fine and to do what he has to do.
Rivaldo /
Apologise
Great Me Sometimes
Great Player
Marking
Tightly
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I advise everyone with plans to visit Brazil for the Olympics in Rio - to stay home. You'll be putting your life at risk here. This is without even speaking about the state of public hospitals and all the Brazilian political mess.
Rivaldo /
Advise
Brazil
Hospitals
Mess
Olympics
Plans
Rio
Brazilian
Visit
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