Javier Zanetti Quotes

I'll never forget my time at Banfield. It is a club that gave me everything and gave me the opportunity to become a man and a player.

While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.

I was with Bremen in a good situation in the Bundesliga. I was the captain and was involved in everything to do with the club.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

Over my NFL career, I've had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak.

I spent six wonderful years at Stade Rennais... I'm proud of what I've achieved at the club.

Juventus' supporters called for Conte, however this is not the reason why the club signed him. I can explain it better: fans are obviously very important, but thinking that Juventus managers follow their moods would be wrong.

I think Manchester United is a much bigger club than any manager in the world, and the manager who comes in should respect what Manchester United is.

I believe I have a lot to offer when I finish football as well. I always said I didn't want to become a manager, but I changed that view.

With a club like Manchester United that have history and traditions, I think the manager at the club should respect that.

I've had the joy of representing some fantastic clubs, all of whom have helped to shape me in their own varying way.

When I joined AC Milan I didn't play for six months. But I was training under a great coach in Carlo Ancelotti. I can't stress how important those six months were - they changed my life.

For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me. Talent isn't everything. You can have it from the cradle, but it is necessary to learn the trade to be the best.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

I just have to improve here at Chelsea. I played in Portugal but here it is a higher level so I'm sure I can improve a lot and I will work hard every day.

Every day, you learn something. That's the same as assistant coach and the same as a head coach. You should continue to learn. You watch so much basketball, you should see something somewhere from somebody different all the time.

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

I have grown a lot under Ancelotti. He got the best out of me.

Steven Gerrard wanted to speak to me, so I went to see him and we had a sit down over my future. He's someone who had pretty much been in the public eye his whole life, and now that I was going to be in bigger fights earning better money, he took it upon himself to give me a talking to about what I should do next.

Eventually, you've got to go from being a talent to being a guy that makes talent.

Being part of the India 'A' team has helped me grow as an all-rounder.

You change the mind and world of one individual and that's huge, man. You reach one person and that starts a spiral effect and starts to snowball. I think that's the one thing as an athlete we should all focus on doing and that's striving to give back in a positive manner.

When you are young, you always want to improve, to work with great managers - and Arsene Wenger is one of the best in the world.