If I could choose anywhere in Brazil, the club I'd play for is Palmeiras.

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.

It gives me great pleasure to see my name linked with clubs like Manchester United and Milan.

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.

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.

The pressure in Brazil is a little complicated, a little menacing.

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

I've played lots of games carrying an injury, but people don't value what I do for Barcelona.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

Louis Van Gaal is a great coach. He has inspired a lot of players to give their best, shown them how to play.

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.

Eden Hazard would be a perfect signing for Real Madrid, not only for his talents as a player but also as a leader.

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.

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.

I take part in every training session, morning and afternoon, to make sure I'm fit enough.

I'm a quiet, shy person and not someone who likes the limelight.

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.

I would like to play with Messi; it would be amazing. He is the best of the world, the one who makes more differences.

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.

Things tend to get easier for Barcelona with Lionel Messi on the pitch.