Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Thiago Silva
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian athlete Thiago Silva.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I try to be as focused as I can so I can do my job to the best of my abilities.
When I do not play, I cannot ascend to the top level and, if I am only at 90 per cent, I cannot help my team.
If you don't have your family behind you, supporting you and giving you advice when you need it, things can get very difficult.
I want to leave PSG one day having won the Champions League. That's my biggest dream.
I am very proud to look back and see all that I've been through, without forgetting my identity and always staying humble.
I think that humility is key to succeed and conquer your dreams.
When you are accustomed to winning, when you are used to winning, then afterwards you tend not to have the same level of concentration. Sometimes you go into the games thinking you have already won because you are so strong.
When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure - even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.
Paris is a part of my life.
By relying on my experience as a player, I hope to one day perform as a coach.
When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.
Brazil versus Argentina is always a great game, with great football and scoring chances.
It is impossible not to hear some of the criticism. However, no newspaper, nor journalist, is going to tell me who I am. I know who I am.
Winning the World Cup is what we have to do with Brazil. Every day that is what is in my head.
I feel French, beyond the passport.
Wayne Rooney would have been great to play with. He is one of the best strikers in the world and this is also a guy who has scored against me every time I've played him.
I respect all opinions, but when you are attacked personally, it starts to get hard. I am especially sad when it impacts my family and my loved ones.
I'm a fan of how Zinedine Zidane ended his career, right after a World Cup.
Italian football remains a very successful product, which has inspired people all over the world.
My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.
It's difficult as a player once you have gone back to Brazil to get that second chance in Europe. Sometimes you only get one chance.
It's difficult to mark Ronaldo. I think he has a lot of qualities. He has all the abilities a striker can possesses. He's very good with the head, the right foot, the left foot. His strike is the same whatever the feet.
My arrival at Porto wasn't easy and I had some difficulties. I spoke the same language but I felt very lonely. Two months later I caught tuberculosis yet at the time no doctor at Porto knew for sure what was wrong with me. I trained and played with the B team.
There is not a day I wake up and do not think of the World Cup.
For me, Messi is the greatest player in history, the greatest player I've ever seen.
I must continue to work hard to help my teammates. Competition always exists in football.
When you don't win, you get called a failure.
Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?
It was a difficult decision to say no twice to Barcelona. It was never a secret that I have admired them since I was a kid and that I always wished I could play for Barcelona. But life is made of hard decisions that sometimes go against what you dream of.
I would still be at Milan if it weren't for their financial problems.
Ligue 1 is much stronger than people give it credit for.
To me, Messi, Neymar and Suarez are among the three best players in the world.
I hope I can make the decision to give up before my legs give up on me. I do not want to be embarrassing on the field and feel one day that I'm not at my best and players can beat me easily in duels.
I was very young when I left Brazil.
Our relationship is very good. When Ibra gets annoyed, I prefer not to reply because I know how he can react. I prefer to calmly count to ten.
The only true opponent of PSG is PSG.
The fear of losing is always there, but you mustn't let that fear dull your desire to win.
I started off as a right-winger, but my coaches pushed me further and further back. So much so that I ended up in defence, because I wasn't good with my hands and there was nowhere else to go! So they put me there and that's when I found my position.
I'll be Parisian for life.
Centre-backs with good technique can move the ball forward, even when under pressure.
The Brazilian press doesn't allow us to forget the World Cup in 1950, when we lost the final in a full Maracana.
I am not a mercenary. Milan was my home. They made a good deal, though. They signed me for 10 million euros and sold me for 42 million euros.
What I like about Scolari is his personality. He is a firm guy in his words - if you are not playing well, you'll be benched, but if you are benched and training well, then you will get your opportunity.
I know nothing is impossible in life.
Mbappe, he always wants to score. He also dribbles well.
I have a clear conscience and never let success get to my head. You know that when you achieve something, you can change the way you are very easily.
When you play against important teams, you obviously feel more motivated.
I am happy that my career has been successful and I want to finish at the highest level possible.
I think the main thing is to give your best regardless of whether you're the captain or not.
Zlatan is one of the top players in the world, in big games, in any games, we know that he can score goals from anything.
Each day you learn something new. Professionally, personally and even emotionally, because the emotional aspect is so important.
Centre-backs usually get criticised for clearing the ball long, but it's easier doing this than risking a pass. If you lose the ball at the back, it's almost a goal. Most centre-backs don't risk this kind of game, depending on the holding midfielder in front.
If you are captain of a great team like Paris St-Germain there are lots of players like Zlatan, players who are known by everybody. So to be captain of that team gives you respect and, in football, respect is very important.
During a training session, Ibra made a mess of five consecutive passes and no-one told him anything. When I made a mess of one, he shouted at me. We had an exchange of words. After training, he came to apologise, and told me it was the first time in his life that he'd been wrong.
I remember I'd be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I'd come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.
We have to learn that not everyone deserves our tears. You have to do the right thing even if someone mocks you.
I'm a very quiet guy.
Playing in adversity is when we show we have clear heads.
My core definition of success is my family. They provide me with all the support I need to feel good, both in and outside of my career.
Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.
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