Giorgio Chiellini Quotes

As a player I was taught the importance of working four or five passes within your team and then stretching the play. That's something I believe in strongly as a coach.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

You have to have something in your head to understand the Barcelona play. You have to adapt as quickly as possible.

For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.

I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.

Spalletti made a difference for me. He gives great importance to the details and, at minimum, wants the goalkeeper to know how to play with the ball at his feet.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.

I think I'm quite a clever player and that I realise there are times when I can be offensive but others when I must be more compact and work for the team, because that is what matters.

I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.

When I am on the pitch, I play on intuition, but I think a lot about the game as well.

The big thing is to win, but to look at the long-term, you need one way to play, and the philosophy is not only to put 11 players on the pitch and play football.

Dominating the midfield is the most important thing in modern football. To succeed, you have to be good at everything.

Football's always been cerebral. The most important thing is thinking fast.

Pastore has so many qualities. Every pass he makes puts our forwards into position and we create a lot of opportunities thanks to him.

It is up to me to adapt and to continue to surprise with my positioning, the timing of my runs, the trajectories, when I call for the ball.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

This is football, so you need to be clever to understand the moment and win games.

Circulation of the ball is important, but it's only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference.