Quotes from Gianluca Vialli

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

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

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

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

Italian managers don't enjoy themselves at all.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In Italy managers are judged simply by results.

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.

Lifting the Champions League trophy would be something Juventus deserve.

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.

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

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.

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

You need to be unbelievably fit for Gaelic football.

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

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.

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

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.