Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Gianluca Vialli

I never thought that being a footballer I was invincible, I knew I was human.

The truth is, Chelsea would like a manager who is more of a club man.

To wear the Juventus shirt is an honor, but it's also very heavy.

They say the Premier League is best league in the world. Or Roy Keane says we are brainwashed into believing it. He might be right. But I can definitely say it's the most entertaining league.

Cancer is an unwanted travel companion, but I can't help it.

Having someone breathing on your neck can be good for you.

Italian football has a lot of appeal, even though it must improve.

You need to be humble, play with pride but also aggression.

If I was a wealthy foreigner I wouldn't want to invest in Italy because there are so many uncertainties, all the scandals related to corruption and match-fixing.

I don't think Italian football is a particularly appealing product for anyone that wants to invest unless they are Italians that understand exactly what goes on in our country and the way things are done.

I never meditated before. I wish I'd started when I was a footballer or more importantly when I was a manager. It might have saved me from insanity.

I am a man who is on a journey and cancer has joined me on that journey... my goal is to keep walking, keep moving until he's had enough and leaves me alone.

The defenders can be clever and use everything within the laws of the game to stop the strikers scoring goals and, while some pulling is allowed, you need to be clever.

It's the inability to handle the pressure that makes a big difference between the Italian players and the England players when it comes to the World Cup stage.

I am glad to see there are some football clubs that are trying to change the trend and move it towards a British way of running clubs, obviously with a very strong Italian identity.

If I'm thinking about work, it's easier to block the irrational thoughts out of my mind.

You realize just by writing down everything you own that it's just materialistic stuff. We are much more than that.

I tried to start looking at things differently; I tried to surround myself with positive energy. Meditation helped, exercising, writing, reading and learning new things.

I don't want robots. I want players who are spontaneous.

I wasn't particularly good at showing my emotions and I kept things inside. It's not good. Now I realize that whenever I want to cry, I cry.

The only way you can play with three strikers - which we did at Juventus - is if the three work really hard, and become the first defenders.

Italian managers don't enjoy themselves at all.

Success comes from the culture you create in your organization.

It's because of football that I bought my first car, I bought my first house and I probably had sex for the first time... actually, that was definitely because of football.

If you want to sell a service, you have to be the first to believe that the service has value.

A sore ankle, a swollen knee or a bruise makes you feel alive.

I think I've got my muscles back. I've been working out every other day with my wife.

I always felt I didn't want to fight cancer, because it would be too big and powerful an enemy.

I try not to cry in front of people that might get very emotional. I try to cry by myself. When I'm in a comfortable place, I don't hold anything inside. I just let it out, and I feel better afterwards.

Management is about improving your relationship with the players and the journalists, about learning to read a game better so that you can make changes.

I am not a warrior.

Conte can't wait to leave Chelsea. He can't stand that they sell or buy players without consulting him.

I have my family. I've got the love of my wife, my daughters and friends, people who like me, think about me and send me prayers and positive energy.

The important thing is not winning, but that we think in a winning way.

I never want to make the people dearest to me suffer: my parents, my brothers and my sister, my wife Cathryn, our children Olivia and Sofia.

As a manager, you have to sow a seed of imagination in your players.

It's inevitable that you find out about your true self. There was so much I realized I had to work on, to try to improve.

I was in love with Cruyff growing up.

Lifting the Champions League trophy would be something Juventus deserve.

I'm lucky because my life has been very exciting.

I think England are a very exciting side because they have got so many young, talented, creative players, playing up front.

In the Premier League you get the feeling they give you a bit longer to sort out problems. They are more understanding and, most importantly, owners of football clubs don't think they know more than managers.

If other teams want to score they must know they have to get past all 11 players. It's a simple philosophy.

Italian players go to bed and they think about the training session of that day and the one the day after.

I'm not 25 anymore. It takes much longer to recover now from a game than before.

The Italian players, they eat pressure for breakfast, so they grow up with a lot of pressure and they know how to handle it.

We Italians need to feel like we're under pressure, we need to see an enemy.

When you meet people you don't want them to look at you and say 'poor you.' I just wanted to be treated like a normal person.

I knew that was going to be the last chance to play in the Champions League final - I was desperate to win, I put a lot of pressure on myself. Finally I got hold of that cup - it was the defining moment of my career. I got really emotional and nearly fainted on the pitch.

I've always been perceived as a tough guy.

I still get upset if the pasta is not cooked how I like it, but I've learned to put things into context.

As a player I had the opportunity twice a week to play football in front of thousands of people and I could make them happy by just scoring a goal.

Clubs have sponsors. They are just there for commercial reasons but the club calls them partners. Then you have the fans. The fans are emotionally involved, they are loyal, and the clubs call them customers. I think fans owning a share of the club would mean the owners know what 'customers' really think and feel.

One of the important things, which I wrote on yellow post-it notes and stuck on the wall during therapy, was that we are the product of our own thoughts.

Something I think that I'm good at is that I don't complain.

I don't like thinking 'Why me, why me, why me?' when I was diagnosed with cancer because that would be hypocritical. I didn't say 'Why me?' when I was one in a thousand who made it as a professional footballer.

I hope that my story can help inspire others who are at a decisive crossroads in their lives.

It is only when you are afraid that you can be courageous. So if you don't overcome any fear, how can you find out who you really are?

I'm here with all my faults and my many fears, but also with the desire to do something important.

Italian football lost credibility because of the match-fixing scandals - the best footballers didn't want to come.