Quotes from Gennaro Gattuso

As long as my players show respect - not for me, but for the locker room, their team-mates and the club - I will tear my heart out of my chest and let them play keepy-uppy with it.

Perhaps I've committed some technical and tactical mistakes and I'll look to correct them.

Sometimes you need to play with a knife between your teeth.

Always protecting the players is not good.

Everyone says Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, but I would have love to have played with Luka Modric. I think he's an incredible player, really strong mentally and a pure footballer.

I don't even know what it means to fix a match,I wouldn't know where to start.

Our mind must be free in order to express our qualities.

Perhaps I am the worst coach in Serie A, but I always want to win, even playing in the garden with my son.

I like good food and talking about football.

You have to respect the wishes of the player.

There is a great deal of fair play in English football.

Ancelotti, for me, is a great person - a great manager.

There was a rule at Rangers, going back to the 1950s, that players needed to turn up for every training session dressed in a suit and tie. I was a teenager. You'd have been lucky to see me in a jacket even on a Sunday - it just wasn't my style.

There's a God of football, who makes you reap all that you've sown.

It's true: sometimes Balotelli could behave better, but it also happens to me. I have a similar character, Balotelli is also a very strong player, but if you protest against the referee for every decision, it's logical you are going to irritate the fans.

I was always harsh on myself as a player and I am the same as a coach, but it's the only way I know how to improve.

After World Cup 2010 in South Africa I will no longer play for la Nazionale.

The World Cup is always difficult, you need to come physically prepared.

I have been compared with Antonio Conte and it is an honour to be compared with him. I would love to enjoy the same success he has had as a coach.

If the glass is half-full or half-empty, it remains the same glass.

Sometimes I can be a little ignorant.

You need to ensure you are ready and impress when called upon.

Am I afraid of President Maurizio Zamparini's reputation for hiring and firing? No, the only thing I fear is death!

You have to spend a lot of money to build strong sides.