Football Quote by Tommy Lasorda

I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

— Andy Townsend

The best thing to do is to find the type of play to make Italy win the World Cup, and maybe Baggio be the…

— Roberto Baggio

I can still remember watching Italy win the 1982 World Cup. I was just an eight-year-old kid in Naples, my hometown, watching the games…

— Fabio Cannavaro

To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the…

— Enrico Letta

One thing about Italians is you can't let them in your head. They're inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe; the Italians…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of…

— D. H. Lawrence

Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the…

— Frances Mayes

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly…

— Gore Vidal

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

— E. M. Forster

The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should…

— Marcello Giordani

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

— Max von Sydow