Thiago Silva Quotes

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

I love watching players improve - even as a Little League coach.

When I went to Japan, I was with Kashima Antlers. Very good results were produced with that team as I aimed to develop Japanese football.

At seven, I played centre-back. When you're so young, though, it's more to enjoy the training and to get a feel for the game. It's not heavy on tactics of a position. We were playing on a half pitch, seven against seven or eight against eight, so they say you're a centre-back, but it's not like the real definition.

Once I reached about 14 or 15, I started to steady myself and get into a midfield role and carried that on until I was 17. Then I dropped into right-back, and I have played there ever since.

My dad produces good footballers.

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

I feel like, at any given time, if I'm not playing my best football, if I'm not taking coaching points, if I'm not doing things right out there on the field, I feel I can be covered by anyone.

I still believe it is important that children have a chance to play other sports because they all offer learning experiences. Soccer is a growing sport and would be a good complement to hockey.

The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.

I would be trying to play hockey with my friends, but most of the time, the coach put me on the bench. Because I was too dreamy - I was dreaming all of the time. I was super bad on the ice because I was just thinking about something else.

I always wanted to be a futbol player, but I was never good enough.

Chinese players are not as naturally skilled like South American or European players, like players who learned football when they were kids. They're not good.

Nobody likes it when people dribble past them, me included, but I can't tackle.