Roberto Mancini Quotes

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

What I don't like in my job is somebody who doesn't put forth the effort. Somebody who doesn't come to play every day.

When you are professional and working in a club like Everton, the obligation is to be motivated, to be focused.

I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

I'm hired to do a job. They expect me to do a job, and that job requires me to get my butt up and get back to the huddle, get the play and go do it another time. And until I can't physically get up, I'm going to do that.

This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

I try to prove that I am an important player every day and game after game.

Work ethic starts where everyone understands that you're putting that extra foot forward in order to be the best.

Ultimately I'm the captain, but if someone can't get themselves in the right state to play, it's not my job. If they don't want to come into work determined to be the best they can be, they're in the wrong job.

Whoever I suit up for... I'm going to do my job.

Every day, you want to come in and contribute when your name is in the lineup.

I work every day 100 percent, but I assure you that I'll quit if my players don't follow me.

We know to come to work every day. It just makes everything that much more fun.

You're not going to look at Paul and see him slacking, not carrying his weight. All the other stuff, 'Paul doesn't lead' and all that? That's fine. Go grab guys that lead, then. Let me help them lead.

Jimmy Butler embodies those qualities just like the Heat players of our great past have done before. Alonzo Mourning, Chris Bosh, Udonis Haslem. He just embodies these qualities of professionalism, of work, of accountability, of being reliable. And he leads.

Sometimes you get players who think it is not important to work, and this is their worst mistake.

If you want to give 100 per cent, you have to feel that you are important for the manager.

Real is when you go to training camp. Real is when you finally get the guys in pads. Real is those guys in that locker room setting those goals because we have some guys now that can set goals and expectations for those guys in the locker room because, ultimately, who are the Cleveland Browns but those guys in that locker room.

We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.

I work every day like I was running for re-election and the race was tight. That's the only way I know how. That's what my mother taught me.

Well gentlemen, today we are going to earn our pay.