Quotes from Thiago Silva

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

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.

Paris is in my story. Nobody can take it away.

Paris is a part of my life.

I'm happy in Paris, I'm happy to play with great players and to be part of an ambitious project.

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.

When you wear that shirt with the five stars on the front you have to respect it.

Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?

At the beginning of every summer it is said that I'll move to Barcelona.

I feel French, beyond the passport.

I was very young when I left Brazil.

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.

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.

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.

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

If you don't have your family behind you, supporting you and giving you advice when you need it, things can get very difficult.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All the great players are welcome in Paris.

The players who defend against him make fouls because it's always hard to defend Neymar and take the ball without fouling him.

Cristiano deserved to win everything he's won in his career.

The fear of losing is always there, but you mustn't let that fear dull your desire to win.