We were all in love with the club. We went to bed with Sampdoria pajamas on, while going to the Bogliasco training ground in the morning was always a joy: the blue of the sea on one side, the green of the hills on the other. Wonderful.
I'm looking forward to staying on the bench as a manager. I'm not going to push myself into the team or play for the sake of it.
I gave up at the right time, scoring a goal against Derby. I didn't hear anybody shouting, 'Please stop, you are getting too old.' That's a success. And I don't want to come back for the sake of it.
I really enjoyed coaching Chelsea. It was a different atmosphere with less money and a more familiar environment.
When you wake up in the morning and you see the same beautiful face next to you, your wife, you don't get bored do you?
Finishing second and getting in the Champions' League quarter-finals or semi-finals is fine, but at the end of the day you need to take some silverware.
In Italy, managers don't know how long they're going to be in charge for and there's always rumors about someone taking over.
I have been thinking quite a lot about retiring... it is getting very difficult to be both a player and a manager.
It's not simply a case of managing players as they used to be any more, because players now are like small companies. You have to deal with their agents and it's become extremely tough being a manager these days.
Celebrations have now become too selfish and I don't like it. When I used to score I was happy to celebrate with my team-mates. Now when players score it is all about them.
I am happy working for Sky Italia, they pay me to go to watch football matches which is great by me.
I am absolutely satisfied with my experience in English football because despite the two dismissals it allowed me to win more than one trophy and to live in a different environment from Italy, where I feel very happy.
My pleasure comes from doing my job in the best possible way. Whether it is at Chelsea or Juventus or Watford, it does not really matter.
When the opposition has the ball you don't want to chase. You want to stay fresh for when the opportunity comes to score.
In England you probably have too many cups with the Champions League as it is now. You have the FA Cup and another cup; what's the point in that? Probably one cup should be more than enough.
Football is something great, but it is like making love: if you do it every minute you get bored, so you have to take your time and do it now and again.
Italian players go to bed and they think about the training session of that day and the one the day after.
It's inevitable that you find out about your true self. There was so much I realized I had to work on, to try to improve.
They say the Premier League is best league in the world. Or Roy Keane says we are brainwashed into believing it. He might be right. But I can definitely say it's the most entertaining league.
Pressure is a combination of expectations, scrutiny and consequences. If the consequences are grave, then you feel more pressure and if you feel more pressure you learn how to cope with that.
In Italy, you lose a game, you can't walk out of the stadium without having a police escort. You lose a game in England and you get out and, as long as you've done your best, you are asked to sign autographs and you see the kids and you see everybody and nothing happens.