Claudio Ranieri

“I want to buy pizza, but my players don't want pizza; maybe they don't love pizza. Because I said when we make a clean sheet, I will buy everybody a pizza. Maybe they wait until I say, 'Okay, a good dinner.' I told them, the clean sheet, I buy everybody a pizza. I think they wait until I improve my offer: 'Okay, a pizza and a hot dog.'”

“You really can eat well in England - if you have the money.”

“I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''”

“I try to forget the past.”

“If you are a loser in this sport, you are a loser also in life.”

“I am a lucky man because when I was young, I wanted to be a footballer. Suddenly, around 30 years old, I thought, 'I want to try to be a manager because it's different.'”

“If I am angry, I am angry. If I am angry, then I have to be calm, and to be calm, I have to tell you to your face what I think about you. If we don't agree, then okay, 'Bye!' It's no problem.”

“I'm from Italy, the home of Vivaldi, Rossini, Puccini. When I stopped playing and became a manager, football became like a beautiful piece of music to me - and the players, an orchestra.”

“Inside me there are two people. One is a very aggressive - I want to win; I won the Premier League, but now I want to win on Saturday. I want to win next season - and is never satisfied.”

“I am not like Mourinho. I don't have to win to be sure of myself.”

“I started coaching in the Interregionale league in Catanzaro. There were pitches with no grass; at times, we had no water, no training equipment. I had to do it all myself.”

“The day my players relax, I get crazy. They know that.”

“Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK.”

“It is very important to be humble but to maintain the conviction that we can do something good.”

“I do not have much time for relaxation, but when I can, I like to read.”

“All the time, I said to my players, 'I don't care about the name on the badge or the name of the opponents.'”

“There is too much unhappiness in football, no?”

“It's not possible to win all matches.”

“With Chelsea, the job was this: move up to the top, get into Europe. And I did that - fourth place in the Premier League and then into the Champions League, the season before Abramovich and all the money arrived.”

“When you play in the Champions League, you are switched on - very, very smart and focused on every situation.”