Gianluca Vialli

I never meditated before. I wish I'd started when I was a footballer or more importantly when I was a manager. It…

— Gianluca Vialli

I really enjoyed coaching Chelsea. It was a different atmosphere with less money and a more familiar environment.

— Gianluca Vialli

If I'm thinking about work, it's easier to block the irrational thoughts out of my mind.

— Gianluca Vialli

I never thought that being a footballer I was invincible, I knew I was human.

— Gianluca Vialli

I've tried to keep myself fit, but to be successful you need to think and train as a player.

— Gianluca Vialli

When you meet people you don't want them to look at you and say 'poor you.' I just wanted to be treated…

— Gianluca Vialli

The only way you can play with three strikers - which we did at Juventus - is if the three work really…

— Gianluca Vialli

When you wake up in the morning and you see the same beautiful face next to you, your wife, you don't get…

— Gianluca Vialli

Finishing second and getting in the Champions' League quarter-finals or semi-finals is fine, but at the end of the day you need…

— Gianluca Vialli

It's because of football that I bought my first car, I bought my first house and I probably had sex for the…

— Gianluca Vialli

In Italy, you lose a game, you can't walk out of the stadium without having a police escort. You lose a game…

— Gianluca Vialli

They say the Premier League is best league in the world. Or Roy Keane says we are brainwashed into believing it. He…

— Gianluca Vialli

It's not simply a case of managing players as they used to be any more, because players now are like small companies.…

— Gianluca Vialli

I am absolutely satisfied with my experience in English football because despite the two dismissals it allowed me to win more than…

— Gianluca Vialli

Pressure is a combination of expectations, scrutiny and consequences. If the consequences are grave, then you feel more pressure and if you…

— Gianluca Vialli

Football is something great, but it is like making love: if you do it every minute you get bored, so you have…

— Gianluca Vialli

I'm mentally drained even when I'm just sitting on the bench and not playing.

— Gianluca Vialli

I think England are a very exciting side because they have got so many young, talented, creative players, playing up front.

— Gianluca Vialli

For me to live in England and be part of English football is the maximum of this life.

— Gianluca Vialli

It's inevitable that you find out about your true self. There was so much I realized I had to work on, to…

— Gianluca Vialli

Italian players go to bed and they think about the training session of that day and the one the day after.

— Gianluca Vialli

I am a man who is on a journey and cancer has joined me on that journey... my goal is to keep…

— Gianluca Vialli

I tried to start looking at things differently; I tried to surround myself with positive energy. Meditation helped, exercising, writing, reading and…

— Gianluca Vialli