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“Without big money you can't stay at the top. Maybe you can reach it for one year but you can't if you don't have money to buy important players.”
“My worst moment was in 2006, in Germany, without any doubt! The defeat in the knockout phase of the World Cup 2006 against Portugal.”
“When you go to a World Cup, the whole nation should be behind the team - and then the team have to play their part, too.”
“Before England, I had never been sacked in my life.”
“The pressure on the English national team has always been very big at all the big tournaments.”
“Gerrard is quiet; if he speaks people listen. If he has something to say, it's important and clever. He's a hard worker, disciplined.”
“Sometimes I thought that maybe it would have been better to stay in Italy, to stay at Lazio.”
“Maybe I trust people too much.”
“You know I never hate anyone in my life. I don't think I have many enemies but I hate Samir Khan because you can't treat people like he has done.”
“To be a manager, you have to perform always. You cannot live in history. It's now and tomorrow that counts.”
“To leave a job with a bad result is, I think, the worst thing in life to do. They will always remember you as a loser.”
“From 1997 I was at Lazio for three and a half years and they were lucky times - a beautiful time. The chairman did almost everything I asked. We won seven trophies and were excellent.”
“I always treated my players like men.”
“Football is beautiful and cruel.”
“Football is important, football is my life, I love it but life is more important than football.”
“I'd won three cups with Lazio - then, against the odds, we won Serie A, the Italian equivalent of the Premier League. Rome went wild. Thousands of people filled the streets, and fans even jumped on my car. I became known as Il Mitico - 'the legend.'”
“It's not that India, China and the United States need football, but football needs these three countries. Because it will be even bigger.”
“Sometimes things go wrong in 'football. You can lose games, own-goals, you can buy the wrong players. But you do it in the right spirit and you do it honestly. That is not how it went wrong at Notts County.”
“In Italy, so long as you are not criminal, they couldn't care less about your private life. It's when you lose a football match that they criticise you - a lot.”
“Sir Alex Ferguson must be very high up on the list of greatest managers ever. Then there is Fabio Capello, and people forget how much Giovanni Trapattoni achieved at Inter and especially Juventus.”