100 Quotes by Thiago Silva

I'm a fan of how Zinedine Zidane ended his career, right after a World Cup.

If I have to run for Neymar, I will run for Neymar. If have to die for Neymar, I will too.

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.

To become world champions in our country would be with us to the end of our lives.

It's not really important whether we play beautiful football. It will be good if we play attacking football and score a lot of goals. But the main objective is to win.

The Brazilian press doesn't allow us to forget the World Cup in 1950, when we lost the final in a full Maracana.

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.

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.

As a football fan I love Ibrahimovic.