Quotes from Claudio Ranieri

I believe only in the mathematics.

I think everyone is the perfect owner.

I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.

I want to buy pizza, but my players don't want pizza; maybe they don't love pizza. Because I said when we make a clean sheet, I will buy everybody a pizza. Maybe they wait until I say, 'Okay, a good dinner.' I told them, the clean sheet, I buy everybody a pizza. I think they wait until I improve my offer: 'Okay, a pizza and a hot dog.'

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

The love the people of Leicester showed towards me was incredible. Even more than winning the Premier League.

When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.

Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.

I remember when I was first time in Serie A, we were down the bottom, no one was speaking about Cagliari. And we were safe, one day before the final match. With Parma, we went down, but we were positive right to the end. There are the little details, but you have to continue.

Rebuilding has always been one of my specialities from the time I started with young players at Cagliari.

There is too much unhappiness in football, no?

I'm from Italy, the home of Vivaldi, Rossini, Puccini. When I stopped playing and became a manager, football became like a beautiful piece of music to me - and the players, an orchestra.