35 Quotes by Roberto Di Matteo

You can win the Champions League in the worst season.

In the FA Cup, you always have to expect the unexpectable.

For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But the way it happened to me, so suddenly... I went into depression and had to deal with that, being depressed, something that had never happened to me in my life before.

Obviously if there is a Chinese player that has the quality and the ability we will certainly be looking to recruit.

I'm generally an optimistic person.

We want to challenge ourselves against the top teams in the world and are happy to be competing on so many fronts. And, personally, it's great for me to work with the quality of player we have here at Chelsea.

I don't forget my roots. My father was an emigrant from Italy who worked in a steel factory. My mother worked part-time. When my father came home she would go out to work, cleaning offices.

It doesn't matter what country but I need to be challenged by it. I need to feel the ambition of the club. You need to have a good relationship, with the board and with the owner.

I still wish Chelsea and all the players every success. I spent so many years connected to the club. One incident is not going to change that.