Giovanni Trapattoni

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We have trust. We work together. We work with friendly for national team, we have to friend be for our work I am trust.
I said that we need, we must together work. I had amount offerte for a new jobs, other nationals team, and one or two Italien, but I don't want to come back Italien is very, very difficult. Your collega, the press, and...no, no, sì, sì, it's normal, I know, I know, I live, I live again with the Kritiker, it's very important. And then when Don gives calls me "Giovanni, there is that opportunity" Liam said me "Giovanni, is a good opportunity because the team is good, the players are good and is Eine Große challenge. I am sometime impulsive, I, I say what I think but I think also one hundred, and when I answer "Okay!" I had immediately Eine great Entusiasmo into me.
Many players plays in England, England is very important. In European is England, Frances, Italien, Spanien and Deutschland. The stark, the heart. And I think with this Jung, is a good match, Jung Eine Oder with experience.
I think with the good performance, the good players and with organization, I think we have that great big possibility. I, I'm trusted this situation, okay?

• First press conference as Republic of Ireland manager, May 1, 2008, Dublin

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• Do you remember the history of Goliath and the giant? It's like in the movie "Sixth power" [actually it was "Quarto potere" (Fourth power), Italian title of the movie "Citizen Kane"]. The tensions rise up to one thousand... even more, up to 0.1 per cent! I think to protect the societary structure which needs to be protected. Life gives us hammer blows on our calluses. We need to build bricks in order to be solid as the asbestos cement.
  • Convention of TIM, an Italian mobile phone company, 4 January 2001
• Don't put the cart before the horse, but let's leave the horses behind the cart.
• Even Lithuania has footballers who play about in Europe. It's not anymore as before, when the Lithuanian footballers played with the reindeers on their feet.
• I don't pursue illusions anymore, I leave them to (Arrigo) Sacchi. Icarus flew, but Icarus was a jerk.
• I say, maybe, without doubt, maybe in order to win today we needed a man, more than a man I think a man.
  • After a Lothar Matthaeus injury in the 1990/1991 UEFA Cup match Rapid Vienna-Inter Milan 2-1.
• In my long career I had been bitten by eight scorpions. Actually I have the antidote in me.
• In this squad there is still a lot of oil to extract.
• Never say "cat" if you don't have it in your sack.
• We are in a place in the standings I don't say it's quiet. But certainly quiet.
• When you get used to sugar, you don't accept the salt anymore.