Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Fabio Cannavaro
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian athlete Fabio Cannavaro.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Juve have allowed me to show my worth, it has provided me with a challenge that has motivated me.
I played Zidane throughout my career, and for many players you reach a point where you learn lessons on how to handle them. But from the first match I played against him to the last, Zidane would find different ways to beat me.
I love Forlan. He runs a lot, shoots with both feet, puts pressure on and he is intelligent and fast.
I watch every game in the Premier League and I like the ambience and culture of football in England.
I didn't start out wanting to be a defender. Who would want to be in the back-line after having watched striker Paolo Rossi score six goals in the 1982 World Cup?
I have thought about moving to Dubai for a while. It's a city that I love.
If you have Messi or Ronaldo you start the game 1-0 up.
Cassano? His talent has never been in question, but his character has. As Italian captain and a big admirer I can only wish him to control his nerves better.
The arrival of Beckham at Milan is not just a matter of marketing.
Prandelli is a coach with great experience and he knows how to work with young people also.
I respect Messi a lot.
A compact defense has always been the basis of Italy's team.
You know I was a ball boy at the Italy v. Argentina semi-final in Naples in 1990 and playing in a World Cup final is something every child dreams about.
In my career, Diego Maradona had the biggest influence on me.
If you work in a certain manner, you don't make mistakes.
I can still remember watching Italy win the 1982 World Cup. I was just an eight-year-old kid in Naples, my hometown, watching the games with a bunch of people in the houses of relatives and friends. I can recall that when Italy scored, we would shout and hug, even though we did not all know each other.
Football is everything for me in my life.
Of course when you are starting to be a coach you want to do your best and my national team is my dream.
Ancelotti is a coach with a lot of experience. He won the Champions League while at Milan, playing some great football in the process.
I'm definitely not a perfect coach and it's impossible to make everyone satisfied.
Messi is top but Maradona is another world.
I have great respect for Juve, whom gave me so much, where I won two championships.
Juventus in Italy are like Real Madrid in Spain, when you enter the team it feels different.
Del Piero is like Raul in Spain, he is the number one.
I don't drink or smoke.
As a defender, you can be many shapes and sizes. You can be short and fast. Or you can be tall and jump high. It doesn't matter. The only necessity is that you are confident when you take the pitch - because every week there is a new challenge.
I consider Zidane to be an amazing player who has written football history.
It's not one person that changes the team.
I am Neapolitan and Naples are the team from where I grew up.
I have no regrets. I won with the most prestigious clubs in the world - Real Madrid and Juventus - and also with the national team. I won the Ballon d'Or and Fifa World Player at 33 years old.
When the national team plays, everyone feels a part of it. Everyone comes together. And when Italians come together, we tend to do well.
If the opportunity came to manage Al Ahli then why not? I would also like to one day coach one of the globe's great teams such as Italy, Real Madrid or Juventus.
I'm Italian and the privilege of working in my home country would fill me with pride. However, the opportunity to work in a variety of countries, learning new cultures and footballing mentalities, is also very valuable.
My parents every day said, 'Ah, it's better you go to school, it's very important for your future.' But inside myself, I said: 'I think the good way is follow the football.'
When you win the World Cup, you start to become a legend - for the people around the world, you are different.
Personally, I like Jerome Boateng. He is physically strong.
I've always been strong physically and I think for a player what happens off the field is even more important.
I never saw Pele, but I watched Maradona, for seven years I saw every game. He's not one of the best, he's the best.
Sure it's a dream to coach Napoli as well as the national team.
An experience abroad really enriches you.
Frank de Boer definitely showed in the Netherlands that he's a good coach.
Zidane was the most unpleasant among my colleagues. I have never liked him on the pitch and we have always clashed. Albeit a champion for his class, I have never managed to see his fair play.
A coach needs time to get to know the players, the environment, the fans and the culture of the club. You can't solve everything in one or two months.
You always have to dream big and think big.
Sure, it is true that none of us is Superman. But when we stand together, we can achieve anything.
I have always been a Napoli fan, but the choice to move to Dubai is the right one.
Maradona, I think, is not a football player but he's something different. He was unbelievable.
If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.
For me, my passion is just to play the game, it doesn't matter if no one comes to the stadium to watch.
Of course, we all know Italy is an amazing country. We have stunning coastlines and a scenic countryside. We have a climate that allows us to spend a lot of time outdoors. We have fashion, we have food. But life in Italy is so good that sometimes we tend to rest on our laurels.
I started playing football in the streets.
Of course I wish to achieve the same results as Marcello Lippi did in his career.
I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.
I'm very proud because, all my life, I worked very hard to be a football player.
You know, when you are the Italian national team, all the time you need to win because for our history, it is important for us to try to win the World Cup.
Going to Dubai represents a different way of life.
My dream was to become the flagship player for Napoli. Even though I played for other teams, I would have liked to have returned and retired there. Napoli is my life, my city, I have regrets.
Iniesta deserved to win the Ballon d'Or. To win it, you have to be lucky that the attackers have not done so well. If Messi and Ronaldo score 50 or 60 goals, they will always give it to them.
When I first arrived at Napoli, I was the ball boy, which meant that I got to watch as the legends trained. Then, once I joined the youth team as a young teenager, I was a midfielder just like Tardelli.
Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.
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