Marco Silva Quotes

Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.

We all understand football is entertainment. And people like high-scoring games. But you still have to play defense to win championships.

It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style.

You try to say every week that you're facing a faceless opponent. No matter who it is, you want to have the same mindset, no matter what type of game it is - first game of the season, last game of the season.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

Every time you can score more goals you should try to do so.

Pedro has special qualities. He adds a lot, dribbling, scoring, keeping the pitch wide. He's always ready to compete.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.

I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.

People expect that you will play well and score a lot of goals, but it is not always possible.

Ronaldo certainly scores goals, but I do too. He certainly scores more than I do, but we don't have the same style.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

For me, all I want to do is win. Whether I make a hundred tackles or one tackle, all I want to do is win and for the defense to perform well.

If we play defense the way we're supposed to and we play defense the way we do here in practice, we should have no problems against most of the teams in the league, and other teams, it'll be a great fight.

The key for me is to score goals and win trophies.

In football, it is not important how you win, it is important that you win.

I pride myself on knowing the defense.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

My job is to just make winning plays when I'm out on the court, and hopefully we're winning. That's all I want.

Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense.

If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.

When you bring a winner onto your team, he knows how to win, he's going to help your team win, and that's the goal at the end of the day.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

It is my job to score goals but that is only one part of the team.