Gianfranco Zola

Everyone has to be the way that they are.

— Gianfranco Zola

I like working with young players.

— Gianfranco Zola

In football, even when you do your best on the pitch, you can win or lose. That is the nature of the…

— Gianfranco Zola

In life you have to be ambitious, you have to look forward all the time.

— Gianfranco Zola

People think because I'm a nice person I'm a weak person. But I don't think being nice means you don't know how…

— Gianfranco Zola

I'm not an enemy of formations and tactics because they are important - but you get to the point where the whole…

— Gianfranco Zola

Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is.

— Gianfranco Zola

I'm sure there are some people who still think I'm too much of a nice guy to be a manager but I'm…

— Gianfranco Zola

What makes you better is not playing every single game in a modest championship. What makes you better is playing 10 games…

— Gianfranco Zola

I remember that when I was learning to play football, kicking a ball for example, I used to do it 300-400 times…

— Gianfranco Zola

Carlo Ancelotti is a good coach and a good man. I worked with him for just three months at Parma, before I…

— Gianfranco Zola

The memories obviously of playing with Maradona are fantastic memories, he's probably the most important part of my career.

— Gianfranco Zola

Some players mature at 18. Others at 28.

— Gianfranco Zola

In football you never know what's going to make you close to somebody.

— Gianfranco Zola

When I was playing football it was 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So I said to myself when I…

— Gianfranco Zola

You have to be who you are but work hard and make sure that you always give the best of yourself.

— Gianfranco Zola

If I felt like I needed to be aggressive all the time, it would have been impossible to be the player that…

— Gianfranco Zola

English football is evolving. It's no longer the game it used to be. Apart from the larger quantities of money which make…

— Gianfranco Zola

Every manager, when things don't go well, they feel bad about it. That, unfortunately, is our job.

— Gianfranco Zola

People expect a lot from the number nine at Chelsea. They expect a lot of goals and good performances.

— Gianfranco Zola

There are those who think that in order to get respect you have to be some sort of tyrant or overly authoritative.…

— Gianfranco Zola

When I was making myself known I learnt a lot from him. I definitely regard him as the greatest, although it's difficult…

— Gianfranco Zola

I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going…

— Gianfranco Zola

As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with…

— Gianfranco Zola

I felt Ancelotti did a good job for Chelsea and, like many fans, we are sorry for what happened to him.

— Gianfranco Zola