Marco Silva Quotes

Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

The Under-21s was a good experience for me and one I will take into the Euros.

I'm maturing as a person and as a player.

Coach Smart did a great job of just letting me come to terms with myself as a basketball player and a person.

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've already thought.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

I try to look at myself to get better as a player.

If I am talking to a youngster, I coach him what I feel is best for him to bowl, how to hold the ball, how to bowl certain things, and how to bowl to certain batsmen, how to position himself. I never talk to them about the rules.

I keep training hard, keep working out, keep looking at my fights, and I wonder, 'If I was to fight me, how would I beat me?' It's like having a boat with a bunch of holes. I'm trying to patch up all the holes. If I was to fight myself, I'd take advantage of certain things. I've got to know my opponent is thinking the same thing.

When I stopped playing and became a coach, I realised that in the past, all the arguments that I had with my coaches were mainly focussed on the technical aspects, and probably that was the biggest signal that I had to have things done my way!

Growing as a man, I had to go through some stuff first. I had to figure this thing out, find out who I was as a player.

One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.

I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody's job and I don't know everybody's job yet. I'm just now comfortable with my own.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling, ... Before taking a drug, go through yourself, experience yourself, all your hopes and fears in your own time. Before the pharmacology, do the psychology.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

When I begin to work on myself, sometimes things get worse before they get better. It is okay if this happens, because I know that it's the beginning of the process. It's untangling old threads. I just flow with it. It takes time and effort to learn what I need to learn. I don't demand instant change.

The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.

Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success