Being in a football environment is where I'm most comfortable. I only feel excited and motivated when it comes to crucial, difficult, important matches.

I'm a coach who admires attacking football. I want my teams to look to win.

As manager of Tianjin Quanjian every day, every week, I have to give our players everything I have.

I have played plenty of matches where I thought I had left everything on the field and given a game my all, but what I have come to realise since I retired and began coaching - 90 minutes on the field do not compare to life as a manager.

It can be lonely as a manager out there. You are on the field, yes, but you are not really on the field with them. Yet I have to share with my players my experiences and my knowledge.

I began searching for my confidence on the pitch as a young boy.

I was strong inside my head.

It's always good to win in the pre-season.

Conte is a good friend and is very charismatic.

I would recommend all players go to Napoli, it is a gratifying and successful place.

Napoli will always have my heart, and it is normal that I want them to win.

I like Mourinho a lot. He has a good relationship with fans, and he always takes responsibility for his players.

With Benitez, he should not be measured on his time at Inter. The Spanish coach has important experience. He has won trophies in England and Spain.

My dream was to become the flagship player for Napoli. Even though I played for other teams, I would have liked to have returned and retired there. Napoli is my life, my city, I have regrets.

As a player it was always not easy to play against Australia. It was always very difficult.

We often talk about this VAR, this new technology. It's very important new technology. On the pitch maybe it's not clear. You cannot see... maybe from another angle in front of the TV it's much more clear. But it's, as always, football. It's easy to be much more polemic about this and that.

The only regret I can have is that Inter sold a player that is now completely recovered. I said many times that I wouldn't have left Inter without showing who I was. But then they sold me.

Obviously I want to win something important, this game is important to me.

For a team of Evergrande's level, fans hope to have the top coaches and the coach will definitely face various pressures.

I like Mourinho because he is intelligent. When his team are in difficulty he's very good at focussing the attention on himself.

After winning the World Cup and the European Footballer of the Year award too, I do not think I can ask for anything else.

I had good times with Juventus but when you are offered the chance to come to Real at almost 33 years of age it is a great opportunity.

It's not one person that changes the team.

People who know me would know that I take one battle at a time.

I know that people in Guangzhou have been very kind to me.

The national team has always lent its image to help Italy's problems over the years... The national team is more about uniting than dividing.

Change does not mean you will win with a new coach and achieve victories, but rather it causes instability in the team as the new coach needs some time for the players to adapt his new plans, which are always different than the previous coach.

My ambition with Al Ahli is to be an example for the local players. They must learn that professionalism is the path to success.

I was trained under very famous coaches in the Italian national team, Read Madrid, Juventus, Internazionale and Parma.

Italy is a great country, one of the most beautiful in the world, but I've always gone my own way.

Now, all the people who spoke before, when I won the Golden Ball, have shut their mouths now the coaches and players from national teams have given me this prize and this recognition.

There's nothing greener than Washington state. They have the most beautiful vegetation on the planet. And the water is so clean.

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.

True love is forever.

If you are good to people, good will come back to you. The universe is run by this law.

They don't call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything.

Since I was a little kid, everybody was paying so much attention to what I looked like, not what I was feeling. You start feeling tired. It's like eating soup every day. You eat the same soup, and you get bored, so I developed my inner self.

There's not enough money in this world to make me do something degrading.

A lot of people, they think, 'Oh, I'm only going to be happy when I find a special person who is going to make me happy.' No. In life, you have to be happy with yourself first, number one.

Since I lost my sister, I decided to enjoy my life, no matter what.

People tend to complicate things in life.

Some women, they expect me to be complicated. Instead, I'm very simple.

Life is like a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini has an engine, a body, and wheels. No matter how strong your engine is, if you don't have any wheels, you're not going anywhere.

It's all about the whey protein and multi-mineral complexes I consume - it's good for my hair, and it's good for my skin.

I love sports. I love motorcycles. Just like most guys.

I don't see myself as a hunk of meat.

Everybody comes here because of the American Dream.

I cannot stand ditsy women.

When you're happy with yourself, you have to find another person who is happy with herself so you can share your happiness.

Money, power, is beautiful if you take just as fun. OK? If you don't get attached.