Thiago Silva Quotes

Sometimes I had bad behaviour with managers that I loved at Sampdoria, like Vujadin Boskov and Sven-Goran Eriksson. I understand that this can happen during the game or when you are substituted.

I don't like to talk about myself. I don't want to talk about what I do, what I think I do. The position I play on the pitch, I am expected - and I expect - to create chances for my team-mates and score goals.

Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Few men in high places will admit a mistake.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

I misfired and said some things in the past about people, namely John Mayer. And I didn't have the guts to apologize.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.

I have to take criticisms, and I will continue to take them for what I think is best for the team.

I never really thought of myself as a captain. I always thought of myself as a guy trying to win games, a guy who could look back and have no regrets.

It's football, you work with humans and humans make mistakes. We will do everything in our power to prepare the players so they know to make the right decision at the right times.

I try all the time to improve in the game, training all the time, and to help my team with assists or goals.

I learned to respect the coach and to do everything within my power to show that I should be the one playing. That's exactly what I did during my three years under Mourinho.

I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players.

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

There're plenty of good people in football - mostly players and managers.

I'm very happy to shoulder the responsibility for my football team.

Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.

I've heard stories about keepers who couldn't stand each other. Everyone in football has a big ego and we all think we should play. But it is not up to me that I or the other goalie is not playing.