Thiago Silva Quotes

I felt I could have been the kind of player Denver needed, but there were too many things going on with the team.

I don't think I've still got things to show Carlo Ancelotti. He has seen me play a lot, even before he was our manager, and he knows what I can do.

There's a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people's livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.

In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best 'championship' for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa - lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions - become professionals of a high standard.

I believe first of all it's always a disappointment to lose the players at an important moment of the season.

I'd had success with the junior England teams.

I think most young players who take off from the start are usually put in a situation where they are surrounded by good, veteran players.

Many managers bring players they have previously worked with into a new club - but that doesn't always mean they will continue to enjoy success together.

A player senses when a coach loses confidence in him. That, more than anything, can throw a player.

Working under Pep Guardiola, a chance like that doesn't come along too often. That's no disrespect to Mauricio Pochettino, but the people that Pep has worked with grow as players.

It sounds strange, maybe, because I have played with a lot of big players but I never thought: 'OK, they're going to go into management.' Maybe there was only one, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, because he was always talking about football but I did not have a feeling with the other players.

There are people, coaches, and players who fit in certain places. All players don't fit into all teams, and not every manager can manage every team.

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

I like to be close to the players and listen to what they've got to say and feel. Then I make decisions from a coach's point of view, thinking about what's best for the team.

We pick players on their profiles. Over the years, I've learned that, if you have one cog that's not quite right in the system, that flow of how you want to play can't work.

I don't mind players earning money, but it should mean, at the same time, that the club is doing good.

It's clear that the more competition there is in a team, the better it is for the club.

I think the NBA just, overall, when you need somebody to blame, the first person that you go to is the coach. But at the end of the day, you need the right players that match each other. Not just the best players. Chemistry helps.

I'm happy with the confidence that Tite has shown me. He and his coaching staff have been doing a great job. My relationship with him is the best I can hope for and I always say that he cares about all the players equally, giving the same level of attention to first-team players and reserves.

We had a difficult last two years when I was in Dortmund. It was not easy, the relationship between fans and players.

Not every young player is going to succeed at Barca.

There is a lot of crap spoken about footballers being nomads but when you get to a club and you create a spirit, there is no doubt players want to do well for their team-mates and club.

To me, I have always been a Rick Adelman fan. I felt like if I had been in his systems, I probably would have been a better player than I was because if you look at his system, it was ideal for me.