Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Gianluca Vialli - Page 2

The Champions League is worth more and allows you to write a page in football's history.

Chelsea are like a beautiful wife who married a richer man after leaving me.

I have been thinking quite a lot about retiring... it is getting very difficult to be both a player and a manager.

Finishing second and getting in the Champions' League quarter-finals or semi-finals is fine, but at the end of the day you need to take some silverware.

I'm looking forward to staying on the bench as a manager. I'm not going to push myself into the team or play for the sake of it.

It's not simply a case of managing players as they used to be any more, because players now are like small companies. You have to deal with their agents and it's become extremely tough being a manager these days.

Football is something great, but it is like making love: if you do it every minute you get bored, so you have to take your time and do it now and again.

Italy should learn from the English system regarding security and civility.

You need pressure... I think in England players are not trained to deal with pressure.

In Italy, you lose a game, you can't walk out of the stadium without having a police escort. You lose a game in England and you get out and, as long as you've done your best, you are asked to sign autographs and you see the kids and you see everybody and nothing happens.

In Italy managers are judged simply by results.

I played for four clubs during my career and for me it was like having four wives.

We were all in love with the club. We went to bed with Sampdoria pajamas on, while going to the Bogliasco training ground in the morning was always a joy: the blue of the sea on one side, the green of the hills on the other. Wonderful.

You need to be unbelievably fit for Gaelic football.

Sometimes when Premiership referees drop down a division they think they can have an easy ride.

I really enjoyed coaching Chelsea. It was a different atmosphere with less money and a more familiar environment.

In England you probably have too many cups with the Champions League as it is now. You have the FA Cup and another cup; what's the point in that? Probably one cup should be more than enough.

I'm mentally drained even when I'm just sitting on the bench and not playing.

I've tried to keep myself fit, but to be successful you need to think and train as a player.

The three European finals I won, I remember very well.

Obviously, I love playing football and I have kept fit.

It's difficult to be both a good player and a good manager.

I love players but I'm afraid it has become a selfish culture.

When you wake up in the morning and you see the same beautiful face next to you, your wife, you don't get bored do you?

When the opposition has the ball you don't want to chase. You want to stay fresh for when the opportunity comes to score.

It's very important for me to play in London. It's a wonderful city.

My pleasure comes from doing my job in the best possible way. Whether it is at Chelsea or Juventus or Watford, it does not really matter.

Italian football is a laughing stock.

For me to live in England and be part of English football is the maximum of this life.

At Chelsea, even though I achieved a lot, they did not have great confidence in me.

As a player I thought all managers were doing something wrong.

I am absolutely satisfied with my experience in English football because despite the two dismissals it allowed me to win more than one trophy and to live in a different environment from Italy, where I feel very happy.

Pressure is a combination of expectations, scrutiny and consequences. If the consequences are grave, then you feel more pressure and if you feel more pressure you learn how to cope with that.

I gave up at the right time, scoring a goal against Derby. I didn't hear anybody shouting, 'Please stop, you are getting too old.' That's a success. And I don't want to come back for the sake of it.

In Italy, managers don't know how long they're going to be in charge for and there's always rumors about someone taking over.

I am happy working for Sky Italia, they pay me to go to watch football matches which is great by me.

It's an indescribable moment when you lift the cup and you scream with your supporters.

You know, it's vital for me, when I take a job, to work with people I can enjoy working with.

If I played again it would be like Maradona or Platini playing again!

Celebrations have now become too selfish and I don't like it. When I used to score I was happy to celebrate with my team-mates. Now when players score it is all about them.

David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now.

At the start of the season you're strong enough to win the Premiership and the European Cup, but you have to be as strong in March, when the fish are down.

The only way to stop Thierry Henry? With a gun!