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From former and current footballers
                                    
            José Mourinho (Chelsea), 2014  http://www.sambafoot.com/fr/informations/58637_jose_mourinho_est_fan_de_thiago_silva.html 
From coaches and club directors
        
                                        
                                        Pippo Inzaghi, 2011  http://www.football-italia.net/node/5903 
From former and current footballers
                                    
                                        
                                        Pep Guardiola, 2011  http://globoesporte.globo.com/futebol/mundial-de-clubes/noticia/2011/11/guardiola-trata-neymar-como-mais-um-bom-jogador-e-elogia-thiago-silva.html 
From coaches and club directors
                                    
“A player like Thiago Silva is impossible to replace.”
                                        
                                        Paolo Maldini, 2012  http://www.football-italia.net/19914/maldini-thiago-sale-sign-weakness 
From former and current footballers
                                    
                                        
                                        Henry Kissinger,  "Interview: All In The Family" http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901060703-1207766-2,00.html, Time Magazine, 06-25-2006 
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                                        Carlo Ancelotti (PSG), 2013  http://www.sambafoot.com/en/news/45256_psg_coach_carlo_ancelotti__thiago_silva_is_best_defender_in_the_world.html 
From coaches and club directors
                                    
                                        
                                        Donnie Walsh — reported in Sam Smith (February 8, 2004) "Bird sets fast pace - Hall of Fame player and former coach Larry Bird finds 'every day's exciting' in his first go-around as general manager of the Indiana Pacers", Chicago Tribune, p. 11. 
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                                        http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/my-all-time-xi-alan-shearer-1505383 
Alan Shearer
                                    
                                        
                                        As quoted in "The Scoreboard: Best I’ve Seen, Clemente Says of Jerry May," by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Tuesday, July 18, 1967), p. 59 
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1967</big> 
Context: “I do not read too much these days about Jerry May, but he is worthy of a story. He is the best defensive catcher I have seen in my 13 years with the Pirates. In fact, I have not seen many better defensive catchers anywhere in my time in baseball. A story now would do him good, make him feel appreciated. How you say, the time is appropriate?" Clemente always knew May could catch but May has opened his eyes in the formidable way he blocks the plate with a runner and the ball both bearing down on him. "He’s a take-charge catcher. He bosses the player throwing the ball – I tell you, that kid amazes me."
                                    
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), p. 135; Ch. 17, December 15, 1939.
 
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                        