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.

In London, you can eat your way around the world - Lebanese one night, Indian the next.

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

If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come here, you have to play in this style.

I don't believe bookmakers.

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.

When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.

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

You use up a lot of mental energy in the Champions League.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

It is important to understand what your team can do.

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.

We must respect the referee every time.

Am I too loyal to my players? I could be, could be.

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 think everyone is the perfect owner.

I am a serious man, a loyal man.

What I have to say, I say face to face.

I am not a man who wants revenge.

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

I think I am a nice man, but also, I am demanding.

I believe only in the mathematics.

I'll admit I was curious about coaching a national team, but my experience with Greece was sufficient.

Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.

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.

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

I have a lot of admiration for those who build tactical systems, but I always thought the most important thing a good coach must do is build the team around the characteristics of his players.

My idea is that players need to recover first, train later.

If you aren't a loser, you fight; you continue to fight, believe.

If you are a gladiator, a fighter in this sport, in life you can be the same.

When I played, I was an English-style centre-half. Always with my heart, always with my fighting spirit.

I always want fighting spirit first.

I like English spirit.

It's important you give confidence.

I always tell my players to find the fire within themselves.

My emotions are strong when I start the season.

It's not possible to win all matches.

Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!

I don't like pasta.

The battle is long, but that's football, sport.

It was fantastic to win the title with Leicester.

I think everyone now rotates. The Tinkerman was one; now there are a lot of tinkermen!

I respect everybody.

If you play well, win, don't change too much. But when you don't play well, lose, you have to give the opportunity to the other players.

The pressure is on the big teams.

Every team believes they are better after the transfer window.

It's one thing trying it in training and another entirely on the pitch.

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

I always question myself, but I always say, 'Come on, we can do something good.'