In business or in football, it takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to produce spectacular results.
It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results
Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
For both the wine business and in football, if you want longevity, you must work hard.
You can score goals at youth level but men's football teaches you things. It teaches you real football and you realise that this game is sink or swim.
Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.
Street football features all the basics of football: you get a lot of touches on the ball, it is fast, teaches you to think quickly and to be creative.
Every minute I spend near Ancelotti I am breathing in football. He likes to really be immersed in football. As a former player and as a coach who knows our needs, it is a privilege to work with him and share time with him because he teaches us a lot.
Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.
In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.
There are a lot of guys who football is all they have. And I love football to death, it got me here, it's what I've been doing since I was nine years old, but football ends at a point in time and you've got to be prepared for life after football.
In football, we never know what will happen. That's why football is so beautiful, and a lot of people love football.
Business is another kind of world that I don't think is as passionate. It is not the pressure to perform as you have in football. It is more about strategy, skill, about how you deal with all the information you have. Some of the things from football I can bring to business, and some things from business I can bring to football.
I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It's not all about highs; there are also lows, but I can deal with it. Football is a hard business.
When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.