Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Roberto Mancini

Cristiano is one of the best players in the world.

It's not difficult to manage Tevez. We had a good relationship always.

I like to go out on my bike. That's when I do my thinking. Two or three hours on the roads - that's when you get time, and you can think without problems.

I am sure that I have improved in England.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

Even the best teams, there are times during the year when you cannot win, and you don't know why. Maybe you are unlucky; you make chances, and you cannot score.

I have great respect for him. Sir Alex has won many trophies and is the most important manager in the world.

I don't like to participate at anything and not finish first.

Do I have the mental strength? I left home when I was 13 years old.

Before I was a manager, I was a player for 11 years.

The national team can do so much for Italian football, as can even lads who no-one knows or who play in the lower Leagues.

I've always been the same. I've had the same mentality ever since I was playing with my friends at school. I want to win. I only want to win.

Sometimes you get players who think it is not important to work, and this is their worst mistake.

Manchester is the same as Milan. The weather is the same, and you have two big clubs fighting against each other.

Being the manager of Manchester City is fantastic for me. It's good.

I don't think there can be a player who doesn't play and is happy.

Neymar is a good player.

For a player, it is important to work and work well and improve every day in pre-season.

Living in England is fascinating: I discover a new world every day.

You are there to score goals, and doing so shows respect for your opponent, it demonstrates that you are taking him seriously.

Inter and their fans have always remained in my heart.

When I played, sometimes we would have one game in a week; now there are no free moments, no time, not even for family.

I like being angry every day.

I don't think Mourinho wants to have friends, or maybe that's just the way he likes to appear.

After you win a Premier League, the second year is more difficult.

I like English football because you play all the games from the start of the Premier League to the very last game always 100%. Even when squads in the last two or three games have just been relegated, they still play 100%.

In every club, 11 players are happy and the others unhappy. This is correct because if one player doesn't play and is happy, he's crazy.

I like the Bundesliga.

In Italy, some managers want distance from the players, the Fabio Capello style, but that is not my way. I am more like Carlo Ancelotti. There are aspects of the players' behaviour I do not understand, but I want them to respect our situation. If they do that, I have a lot of respect for them, too, and I will do everything to help them.

What do you think I am in Manchester for, the weather? I am here to win - only to win, always to win.

I'm against cigarettes, always.

We need to remember that simply being Inter is not enough to win football matches.

If you have a top winger, you are going to win a lot of games.

When you go to another country, you can work with different players in different situations, in a different culture.

You don't lose matches because the president lives elsewhere.

I have said many times that I was a Juventus fan when I was a child.

I'm sorry to see Balotelli waste his talent the way he does, but I think he can keep people entertained by scoring goals.

In my day, 20-year-olds already had 150 first-team appearances under their belts.

Villarreal is a difficult place to go, and if you want to win there, you have to play very hard and very well.

Racist behaviour must be stigmatised so that it can be no more.

In football, you can do well even without spending huge amounts.

There are players whose only target is their day off, and that is a big problem.

Sometimes you think that a reconstruction project can be done more quickly than you expected.

I played for Sampdoria and stayed there 15 years. Of course, I could have gone to Juventus, to AC Milan, to Inter Milan many times, but I preferred to remain because Sampdoria were my family, from the owners to the players.

I played for Bologna in Serie A when I was 16, and those experiences made me this person. Just as importantly, I never played for a big club. My teams were normal, ordinary, but through hard work, we became successful.

I'm very happy about what I did in Manchester. I love the Manchester City supporters, and I had a fantastic experience.

Every manager can improve.

Football is strange, especially after a World Cup.

You should always play 100 per cent, and you shouldn't expect every decision from the referee.

Balotelli I have known since I gave him his debut at 17.

You can't win every year. This is impossible in England.

Sometimes a player thinks it's enough what they did the year before and doesn't understand that every day they should improve.

He's a great champion. I can tell you that I was amazed by Drogba - he's a great person.

It is normal to be under pressure in England and Italy when you arrive in the last two months of the season. Every manager is talked about, and their squad is examined.

I think a player like Van Persie can play for every team because he's a top player.

In Italy, everyone is talking about the referee for three days before the game - 'We don't like him. He is no good.'

In Italy, you get three or four goals, you go slow, you stop.

When I played, I always wanted to attack. This is my philosophy.

Sometimes it is difficult to understand why some players have certain agents.

I always try to work hard and well if it's possible.