Top 50 Roberto Mancini Quotes

I won with Fiorentina, Lazio, and Inter.

You can only win if you have good players.

I like the Bundesliga.

I played for Bologna in Serie A when I was 16, and those experiences made me this person. Just as importantly, I never played for a big club. My teams were normal, ordinary, but through hard work, we became successful.

Neymar is a good player.

I have said many times that I was a Juventus fan when I was a child.

In Italy, you get three or four goals, you go slow, you stop.

I like being angry every day.

You need two or three players who can do that – play behind the striker, on the right wing, the left wing… striker, maybe. If we have those, it’s good for the team.

Sometimes it is difficult to understand why some players have certain agents.

Being the manager of Manchester City is fantastic for me. It’s good.

If you have a top winger, you are going to win a lot of games.

I have great respect for him. Sir Alex has won many trophies and is the most important manager in the world.

Torres is a fantastic striker, and I think it was difficult for Liverpool to sell him because he‘s such an important player for them.

The Scottish fans are the best in the world. I love them.

When I played, I always wanted to attack. This is my philosophy.

I don’t think Mourinho wants to have friends, or maybe that’s just the way he likes to appear.

You don’t lose matches because the president lives elsewhere.

Sometimes you get players who think it is not important to work, and this is their worst mistake.

I know only one way: work hard.

For a player, it is important to work and work well and improve every day in pre-season.

In football, you can do well even without spending huge amounts.

When I played, sometimes we would have one game in a week; now there are no free moments, no time, not even for family.

It’s important to work with a team if you believe in the project. If I’m not happy, I leave. This is true for everyone in every job.

Racist behaviour must be stigmatised so that it can be no more.

Inter and their fans have always remained in my heart.

To lead your country is the crowning ambition for any coach.

In Italy, everyone is talking about the referee for three days before the game – ‘We don’t like him. He is no good.’

I like to take up difficult challenges and work hard towards achieving my goals.

At Inter, I earned my wages based on the results on the field.

When you work, you know you can have some problem with the players. This is normal because the manager wants the players to work hard, play well, and the players should understand this.

You are born with the talent; then you work with it. You develop the right mentality.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

I like to go out on my bike. That’s when I do my thinking. Two or three hours on the roads – that’s when you get time, and you can think without problems.

Even the best teams, there are times during the year when you cannot win, and you don’t know why. Maybe you are unlucky; you make chances, and you cannot score.

Balotelli can play as a striker, as a winger.

Football is strange, especially after a World Cup.

Trequartista is an important position in the team.

I like to work on the pitch, and only in this way can you beat important teams. If you don’t believe in yourself and your job, it’s difficult.

Balotelli I have known since I gave him his debut at 17.

I played for Sampdoria and stayed there 15 years. Of course, I could have gone to Juventus, to AC Milan, to Inter Milan many times, but I preferred to remain because Sampdoria were my family, from the owners to the players.

It is normal to be under pressure in England and Italy when you arrive in the last two months of the season. Every manager is talked about, and their squad is examined.

You don’t win games by being aggressive. You win by being relaxed.

Sometimes I had bad behaviour with managers that I loved at Sampdoria, like Vujadin Boskov and Sven-Goran Eriksson. I understand that this can happen during the game or when you are substituted.

You are there to score goals, and doing so shows respect for your opponent, it demonstrates that you are taking him seriously.

English football is very different from Italian; it’s more physical, and matches are always very open.

I think that Balotelli could be as good as Torres – and even better than him.

You should always play 100 per cent, and you shouldn’t expect every decision from the referee.

I do not think I will go to China. They called me, but I said no because, for me, the real place for football is in Europe.

I’m sorry to see Balotelli waste his talent the way he does, but I think he can keep people entertained by scoring goals.