I realised it was very important to show the fans that I'm a normal person.
“I realised it was very important to show the fans that I'm a normal person.”
The World Motivation
I realised it was very important to show the fans that I'm a normal person.
“I realised it was very important to show the fans that I'm a normal person.”
I realised it was very important to show the fans that I'm a normal person.
The No. 33 represents my own rise in football. It was the number of the first shirt that I wore at Palmeiras, so I feel a real affection for it.
Whenever I score for Manchester City, my mother calls me. As soon as the ball hits the back of the net, the phone rings. It doesn't matter if she's back home in Brazil or if she's in the stadium watching me. She calls me every time. So I run to the corner flag, and I put my hand to my ear, and I say, 'Alo Mae!'
It was playing on the varzea where I learned to be a warrior, to fight for every ball, and then to never give it away.
From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
Like any normal person, sometimes I like to dress up and sometimes I don't.
When I was a kid, my mom always said that I was going to be great. I guess it was because of the way I would behave. She would say because of my attitude, I must have to be great because I can't behave like that and just be some normal person.
I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.
I remember when I was playing for Pequeninos, I'd see some of the kids after the match with their fathers, and I was alone. That was heavy for me. It marked me.
I like to keep some privacy, be a normal person.