Paolo di Canio

“I respect everyone.”

“I always liked to have a strong manager. Sometimes I'd have a bad confrontation in his office but if he told me face-to-face - with some bad words, of course - what he wanted from me, then I was a happy man. I'd think 'I love this man, I want to give even more for him now.'”

“I do not permit anyone to offend the values I have received from my parents.”

“I've spent big money on solicitors in the past; you can imagine what I would spend on my players.”

“I really believe in work, work, work.”

“I have played for some of the best managers in the world, such as Giovanni Trapattoni and Fabio Capello, and they would always explain why they did something.”

“I am not a man accustomed to weeping.”

“My dream would be to manage in the Premier League because English football is the best in the world and my dream in particular would be to manage at West Ham - that would be perfect.”

“This is the magic of football. One year you think Manchester City can win the league easily, or Arsenal, because City and Chelsea are out, and you see Leicester there. Fantastic this sport!”

“Guys like Balotelli deserve lots of slaps rather than pats on the shoulder.”

“What counts for you in life? The world of fact.”

“I have always said it is my destiny to come back to West Ham and I never change my opinion.”

“I like Glenn Roeder, he is a good manager.”

“With me the players will probably have less time free during the week, but at the end of the day I have always said to my players that they don't have to love me, they have to follow me. It's enough to have success.”

“I know many players who had ice with coke the night before games. It causes congestion and they can't play properly.”

“If you've been a good player then you come to League Two, how will you cope with games on a dark, cold, wet Tuesday night? But I started at this level as a player in Italy with a club called Ternana, probably on worse pitches than League Two because they have real grass, there it was just bare earth.”

“I am not political, I do not affiliate myself to any organisation, I am not a racist and I do not support the ideology of fascism.”

“We want to make the people be proud of the way we approach the game and play.”

“It's easy to judge a manager, I know because I did when I was a player.”

“The dream is, once I am well known here and settled in this environment I love, to be the manager of England. Maybe it will never happen, because they'll never give it to me.”