120 Quotes by Claudio Ranieri

I want to be strong because you believe in me. You have to trust me. I give my knowledge to you. That is my philosophy.

I want to buy pizza, but my players don't want pizza; maybe they don't love pizza. Because I said when we make a clean sheet, I will buy everybody a pizza. Maybe they wait until I say, 'Okay, a good dinner.' I told them, the clean sheet, I buy everybody a pizza. I think they wait until I improve my offer: 'Okay, a pizza and a hot dog.'

They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'

Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!

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.

I think the strength of the man is to have the right balance. Not to be so high when you win; not to be so down when you lose.

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

I remember when I was first time in Serie A, we were down the bottom, no one was speaking about Cagliari. And we were safe, one day before the final match. With Parma, we went down, but we were positive right to the end. There are the little details, but you have to continue.

All the time, I said to my players, 'I don't care about the name on the badge or the name of the opponents.'