Quotes About Football

Italy was the hardest league to score goals in. Those guys just love defending.

I love Italy; in Italy, I grew up like a man and like a player. I felt Italy like a family.

People say the English players don't come to Italy because they look down on Serie A, but that's just not true.

All the best players wanted to come to Italy.

It's always complicated to play against Italy.

People say that Andrea Pirlo is the main player and that everything goes through him, but that's an illusion. Pirlo is a brilliant player but doesn't dominate Italy's play as much as people say.

Nobody should imagine that they could go to England and change the way that football is played there. Just as nobody should imagine that they could come to Italy and change the culture or the DNA of Italian football. Or even the DNA of the club where they work.

In Italy, it is really hard to win the Serie A.

There are many good players, in Italy and abroad.

Juventus are one of Europe's and Italy's big teams.

When I played, it was more difficult to score goals in Italy than anywhere else.

Juventus fans know a lot about him, but in Italy we love Mourinho for his success.

When we talk about racists, first, racists still exist on this earth. They're in Europe and in Austria and Germany where we play, in Italy. I've heard a lot of things and also have my own experience with that. We don't have space for this, especially in football, but also just on the Earth.

Italy is one of the great footballing nations, with whom we have a great sporting rivalry.

When I was in Italy in the 90s, early 2000s, everybody wanted to go to Italy, all the players.

People were used to see me in a 3-5-2 because in Fiorentina that was also where I played. But the hard thing was to adapt to that when I arrived in Italy.

Football in Italy is crazy and the people are very crazy, too, so I think we are used to it.

You don't criticise Totti in Italy. There might have been reasons to, sometimes, but you don't touch him.

In Ivory Coast it's very hard to have normal shoes, so just imagine football boots - they were considered a true luxury.

There is great respect for Liverpool in the Ivory Coast.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

I have never been to Jamaica and in footballing terms, I feel English because this is where I grew up and played all of my football. That is not to say I don't have immense pride in my Jamaican heritage - I certainly do.

Brent Celek is a heck of a blocker, James Casey is a heck of a blocker.

Jamie Carragher was someone who I looked at as to how to organise, how to defend and how composed he was, how good he was at reading the games and he was one I looked up to.