Gianfranco Zola quotes:

He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England.

As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with Roberto Di Matteo.

Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is.

It's best that I hide my real personality. I cannot tell you what it is because I don't want to go to prison.

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.