Thiago Silva Quotes

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it keeps you from striving as hard for the kind of validation you seek from a good show.

I always want to win everything!

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

Sometimes when you are winning, you don't see your flaws; you don't see what you are not good at.

Sometimes, you go into an audition, and sometimes you're just not on it completely 100 percent.

In the late '80s and early '90s, I took success for granted, winning four or five tournaments a year. I just expected to win them.

The minute you think, 'I have done it' or 'I know what is happening,' you will start to go down.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

I don't mind getting beaten by Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr and people like that, but I'd hate to go into a training camp with my heart not fully in it and risk getting beaten by somebody who shouldn't be beating me.

Fear is there. Anything can happen at an Olympics. I want to use the experience I gained from Athens and Beijing - the fear, too - and build a me that can't lose. I will do everything to make sure I win a third gold medal in London. That target drives me. I'm bulking up and have more power now. I'll be fighting fit to take the gold back home.

I have no doubt in my abilities that I can beat any of the top ten guys. Once I'm focused I know I can beat them.