David Silva Quotes

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

I want to do everything to get to a new level.

In 1987, I wrote a goal sheet. I didn't want to waste my life. I'd dropped out of college, and there was a lot of pressure from my parents. I decided, 'If you're going to do this, you're going to become the best in the world at this.'

It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.

In football you go from hurdle to hurdle, there's always something to motivate you, always something you want to get.

I always want to do things that really have to be done, something that's a challenge - and I'm trying not to repeat myself.

I have at least one goal that I work toward each day. It's all about taking hold of the day rather than letting the day run you.

I had a dream, and that dream kind of became a reality when I started taking steps toward it. You don't even realize what you're achieving as you're achieving it.

I didn't really think I was really good, I was just playing the game because I enjoyed playing it with my friends. Then once I started playing organized soccer, parents, coaches and other teammates were telling me to keep going and that I could become something so I started believing it.

I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

I have a need to do something and know I can be successful.

I now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year.

It will be hard for us and it will be an achievement just to get out of the group stages and through to the quarterfinals, but I am personally dreaming of reaching the final!

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.