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.
Thiago Silva
When I joined AC Milan I didn't play for six months. But I was training under a great coach in Carlo Ancelotti. I can't stress how important those six months were - they changed my life.
I've overcome tuberculosis and my life was at risk.
I know nothing is impossible in life.
It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.
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.
We have to learn that not everyone deserves our tears. You have to do the right thing even if someone mocks you.
My mother taught me to be honest no matter what situation takes place in my life, to be honest and to stay humble.
I must continue to work hard to help my teammates. Competition always exists in football.
There is not a day I wake up and do not think of the World Cup.
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.
As a football fan I love Ibrahimovic.
Why would I accept to earn less money to play for Barcelona? Why are players the ones supposed to sacrifice themselves?
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.
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.
I think that humility is key to succeed and conquer your dreams.
By relying on my experience as a player, I hope to one day perform as a coach.
Paulinho provides pace, strength and quality goals in the middle of the park.
It was Milan who proved they wanted me and they did everything to get me.
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 am happy that my career has been successful and I want to finish at the highest level possible.
Ibrahimovic is a very intelligent player and there are very few strikers like him in world football.
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.
Sadio Mane is a world-class player. He is almost perfect. He moves very fast, controls the ball well and is very intelligent in his movements.
The fear of losing is always there, but you mustn't let that fear dull your desire to win.
It's tough for us to fight against those who have the microphone. We try and respond on the pitch, playing as well as possible, and dedicating ourselves on the training ground.
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.
We are professional footballers. How to cope with the pressure is one of the things we have to learn.
I'm a very quiet guy.
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.
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.
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.
Ligue 1 is much stronger than people give it credit for.
I am very proud to look back and see all that I've been through, without forgetting my identity and always staying humble.
Brazil versus Argentina is always a great game, with great football and scoring chances.
To me, Messi, Neymar and Suarez are among the three best players in the world.
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.
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 was very young when I left Brazil.
When you play against important teams, you obviously feel more motivated.
For me, Messi is the greatest player in history, the greatest player I've ever seen.
I want to leave PSG one day having won the Champions League. That's my biggest dream.
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.
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.
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.
When you don't win, you get called a failure.
I try to be as focused as I can so I can do my job to the best of my abilities.
When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.
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.
Centre-backs with good technique can move the ball forward, even when under pressure.
