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“When you are doing something that is your passion - you are professional but you enjoy it - playing with fear, training with fear is not something you can do. How can you come with fear and without confidence to your job?”
“You cannot achieve your goal just with young players. We have to see them growing in a stable, mature squad.”
“I believe in my job and I believe in my players.”
“Football will always be about the results because if you are winning and taking good results you are not asking me about the young players.”
“In football it is impossible to win every match but we must do everything to show in every game that we have ambition.”
“We play sometimes against teams with more individual quality than us, better players, bigger budgets, whatever, but we try to play our football. We don't try to change too much in our philosophy, in our model.”
“Football is a party for everyone to enjoy and be part of.”
“If you don't have the personality or character to compete and to challenge Manchester United at Old Trafford, or at home, you have less chance to win the match.”
“I'm not The Special One. I'm Marco Silva.”
“When I prepare for a game the names are not really important to me.”
“In football, whatever can happen can happen when the team performs well and sometimes when the team does not perform as well.”
“When you are winning games in a row, normally what the people say about you is good.”
“We'll work hard every day to prepare for the matches and to do our best in every game.”
“To play with mobility is what matters.”
“As a 26-year-old player I had tried to understand why I was doing certain things and why the coach was telling me to do certain things. I started to view myself as a coach would.”
“You cannot be a winner without maturity and consistency.”
“It is better to be compared with a very good coach than the other way.”
“I took a big risk to come to Hull, I have to be honest. But I loved it there, I really did. Great club and great people.”
“Details make the difference in football today. It is part of our process.”
“The formation is not the most important thing.”