Quotes by Roberto Di Matteo - Page 1 | QuoteForever

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

I'm generally an optimistic person.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Optimistic Person
Copy Quote
You can win the Champions League in the worst season.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Champions League
Football
Winning
Copy Quote
In the FA Cup, you always have to expect the unexpectable
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Copy Quote
Food was always such an important part of my family life when I was growing up.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Family Life
Life Family Food
Important Part
Copy Quote
Obviously if there is a Chinese player that has the quality and the ability we will certainly be looking to recruit.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Recruit
Copy Quote
It's the biggest challenge for any manager to play against the best team in the world, but for every player as well.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Biggest Challenge
Copy Quote
I wouldn't lie and say it's not disappointing to have reached so many semis and a final and not won the Champions League.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Champions League
Disappointing
Champions
Reached
Copy Quote
You have to kind of sustain a level of performance in the Championship to be able to come out of it at the end of the season.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Championship
Sustain
Copy Quote
My football philosophy is to win as many games as possible. Brand of football? I believe in mixing a bit of everything. You have to.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Mixing
Copy Quote
Pierluigi Gollini is a highly-rated goalkeeper in Italy, he's young, a good shot-stopper, he comes for crosses, he's good with his feet.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Crosses
Goalkeeper
Italy
Copy Quote
I still wish Chelsea and all the players every success. I spent so many years connected to the club. One incident is not going to change that.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Chelsea
Incident
So Many Years
Copy Quote
Some of my worst moments in football have been losing semi-finals, the Barcelona game in 2009 probably more than most. But you have to take it and bounce back.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Barcelona
Bounce
Football Game More
Copy Quote
There was not much money around, but my sister and I were happy. All the sports facilities were 10 minutes' walk from my house and the school system was very good.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
School System
Facilities
Copy Quote
Every session we do we try and talk about the way we want to play, I try to organize the sessions in a way that the players can understand the way I want them to play.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Organize
Session
Copy Quote
I had a very traumatic end to my career so I didn't think I would become a manager then. As the years pass by the fire in you, the hunger, the desire for success comes back.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Hunger
Traumatic
Copy Quote
It doesn't matter what country but I need to be challenged by it. I need to feel the ambition of the club. You need to have a good relationship, with the board and with the owner.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Good Relationship
Challenged
Owner
Copy Quote
But I do love to cook. When I have a dinner party I like to invite loads of people, then I would just do like a salad buffet, with some snacks and cold meat and lots of different salads.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Dinner Party
Meat
Snacks
Buffet
Invite
Salads
Copy Quote
I don't forget my roots. My father was an emigrant from Italy who worked in a steel factory. My mother worked part-time. When my father came home she would go out to work, cleaning offices.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Cleaning
Part Time
Roots
Steel
Work Home Father
Factory
Italy
Offices
Copy Quote
Well, I grew up in Switzerland where my parents were immigrant workers, but my whole family are very good cooks - my father also. So I always saw my parents enjoying to cook and prepare the food.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Cooks
Switzerland
Family Good Food
Enjoying
Prepare
Copy Quote
What I believe is that we need a united group, people who are willing to fight for the club in the Championship. They need to put their services into the good of the team, for the good of the team.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Championship
Copy Quote
Obviously you do get influenced by former managers. That's normal. You try to build your own coaching philosophies. I've played for Arrigo Saachi, Dino Zoff, Zdenek Zeman, Gullit, Vialli and Ranieri.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Former
Managers
Influenced
Philosophies
Copy Quote
It's a daily plan to solve the problems thrown at us and emerge stronger. You pick things up on the way, and you even learn from the players you work with, but your overall philosophy doesn't change.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Thrown
Emerge
Overall
Copy Quote
We want to challenge ourselves against the top teams in the world and are happy to be competing on so many fronts. And, personally, it's great for me to work with the quality of player we have here at Chelsea.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Chelsea
Competing
Fronts
Work Great World
Copy Quote
I believe in passing football with a purpose. You have to be physically strong and sometimes, in some games, you have to be more direct because that style requires it. We will prepare our teams to be ready for all situations.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Passing
Prepare
Copy Quote
In all I had 10 operations, nine within six weeks. Then one to remove the rod I had in my tibia a year later. I still have problems. I can do a little bit on the pitch, but the day after I feel it. And it is not going to get better.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Operations
Remove
Rod
Year Later
Copy Quote
We were under pressure at West Brom to get promoted and to stay up, even if, at a big club like Chelsea, the pressures are more highlighted by the public scrutiny you're under. It's part of our job, that pressure, and I cope with it well.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Chelsea
Scrutiny
Cope
Promoted
Copy Quote
I had a great career, to go from a small town in Switzerland to play for the Italian national team was a dream come true. So was playing for Lazio and Chelsea, winning trophies. When I look back I am very grateful for what I had, rather than what I missed.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Chelsea
Italian
National Team
Small Town
Switzerland
Trophies
Great Look I Am
Great Career
Missed
Copy Quote
I still did some things in football, but I needed to get away from the game. I needed closure. And once I felt I'd achieved that, the hunger came back. That fire in your belly, the desire to feel the adrenaline at the weekend. That's when I felt I was able to go again.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Adrenaline
Belly
Closure
Hunger
Achieved
Copy Quote
For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But the way it happened to me, so suddenly... I went into depression and had to deal with that, being depressed, something that had never happened to me in my life before.
Roberto Di Matteo / Soccer Player
Being Depressed
Life Football Your
Depressed
Copy Quote

Related Soccer Player Authors

Zinedine Zidane
Soccer Player
Friday, Jun 23, 1972
Yaya Toure
Soccer Player
Friday, May 13, 1983
William Aitken
Soccer Player
Friday, Feb 02, 1894
Thursday, Aug 09, 1973
Will Evans
Soccer Player
Wednesday, Oct 09, 1991
Wayne Rooney
Soccer Player
Thursday, Oct 24, 1985
Walter Smith
Soccer Player
Tuesday, Feb 24, 1948
W. Patterson
Soccer Player
Vladimir Makarov
Soccer Player
Sunday, Mar 09, 1947
Saturday, Aug 11, 1979
Vincent Kompany
Soccer Player
Thursday, Apr 10, 1986
Vicente Del Bosque
Soccer Player
Saturday, Dec 23, 1950
Vahid Halilhodzic
Soccer Player
Wednesday, Oct 15, 1952
Uche Okafor
Soccer Player
Tuesday, Aug 08, 1967
Thursday, Jan 06, 2011
Tony Cascarino
Soccer Player
Saturday, Sep 01, 1962
Toni Kroos
Soccer Player
Thursday, Jan 04, 1990
Tobin Heath
Soccer Player
Sunday, May 29, 1988

View All Soccer Player Quotes

Top Authors

Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher
Wednesday, May 05, 1813
Sunday, Nov 11, 1855
Socrates
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Deepak Chopra
Author
Wednesday, Oct 22, 1947
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet
Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
Friday, Jul 25, 1834
George Orwell
Novelist
Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
Saturday, Jan 21, 1950
Heraclitus
Philosopher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Monday, Oct 16, 1854
Friday, Nov 30, 1900
Saint Augustine
Saint
Saturday, Nov 13, 0354
Wednesday, Aug 28, 0430
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
Wednesday, Mar 30, 1853
Tuesday, Jul 29, 1890
Helen Keller
Author
Sunday, Jun 27, 1880
Saturday, Jun 01, 1968
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34Th U.s. President
Tuesday, Oct 14, 1890
Friday, Mar 28, 1969
John Keats
Poet
Saturday, Oct 31, 1795
Friday, Feb 23, 1821
Albert Camus
Author
Friday, Nov 07, 1913
Monday, Jan 04, 1960
Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1921
Tuesday, Oct 05, 2004
Aldous Huxley
Writer
Thursday, Jul 26, 1894
Friday, Nov 22, 1963

View All Authors

Share This Page