Paolo di Canio

People can change.

I love Swindon. OK, it's not a place where you can almost smell the history, like Rome or Florence. It's an industrial town. That may not seem 'cool' to some people, but it only makes me love Swindon more.

I love England. I love the country and I love the people.

Football is a passion.

I am not a man accustomed to weeping.

I know referees are under very high pressure.

You cannot imagine John Terry or Luis Suarez to be racist. Otherwise they would not play with other black guys.

I have friends who are black, Jewish.

The mix of the two is the perfect mix to be a very good manager. But I don't try to imitate either Capello or Harry Redknapp.

Every manager thinks they are ready for the top, top level but I do not only think about the top. The top for me is the place where I can train and work in my way.

Football is my breath.

I was sacked like a hundred managers in life, but when it happened to me, there is always said to be a problem, but there was not a problem.

There are sometimes managers that are not good enough for some groups but there are also some groups that are not good enough for a manager.

Conte at the top level is an example at Chelsea. He didn't start very well. He is similar to me. He's a hammer every day, works so hard.

It's important players and people around them have concentration and purpose.

I know many players who had ice with coke the night before games. It causes congestion and they can't play properly.

Even coffee before a game or training can be a problem. You can have coffee but three or four hours before. Coffee can reflect into your mood, your perception of the training. Have coffee when you get up, at breakfast, not before going out.

Not all British heroes may have been winners, but they were all fighters, people who have the tenacity never to give up. I feel a special kinship towards that, every day I feel myself absorbing more and more of that bulldog spirit.

Perhaps because I am right wing, I am fascinated by Benito Mussolini. What fascinates me, and this is probably where Mussolini and I are very different, is the way he was able to go against his morals to achieve his goals.

Maybe it's possible to have foreign national coaches in Africa or Albania but in Italy, Germany and England, how could you think of finding a manager from a different country?

For sure, my character will never change.

As a manager, I live with my players and study them. That way, you can tell when something is wrong.

You have different egos in the Premier League, but you could have a player with 400 games behind them at Manchester United alongside a young player who is still learning the game. They will be very different.

People say managing in the Premier League is different, but I don't know what university of football management they went to in order to say that.

When I watch the Premier League I am always proud to see players that were young boys when I was at West Ham - I'm talking about Joe Cole, Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand and Trevor Sinclair.

It's easy to judge a manager, I know because I did when I was a player.

Some footballers are lazy and less disciplined and do crazy things.

I've heard it said many times that I can't manage in the Premier League like I did in League One, but why not? Because of the egos? Why are they different egos? I may never get the popularity of my footballers but I'm sure I'll get the best out of them.

When you have a training session you are there to improve.

I did ban ketchup and mayonnaise because the players have too much of it and it is not healthy. It is not professional in a top club in one of the top leagues in the world. I saw people put ketchup in their pockets trying to smuggle it in! It was crazy.

We must communicate on the field otherwise we will pay a price.

I'm sure about my strategy and philosophy and methodology. But it is difficult because in football there is panic, the players sometimes don't believe in things.

I never feel pressure.

I like the culture in England. Why would I want to leave?

I like Glenn Roeder, he is a good manager.

I have played for some of the best managers in the world, such as Giovanni Trapattoni and Fabio Capello, and they would always explain why they did something.

Even coffee can be a problem. You can have one when you get up, but not an hour before you go out training or playing. We give the players diet sheets to follow.

If you have ice with coke you can have indigestion.

Every weekend I watch all the English games on TV but I always look out for the West Ham score, I have a special place for them in my heart.

Capello's first year was fantastic, England won all their games - but the World Cup was a disaster.

I always liked to have a strong manager. Sometimes I'd have a bad confrontation in his office but if he told me face-to-face - with some bad words, of course - what he wanted from me, then I was a happy man. I'd think 'I love this man, I want to give even more for him now.'

A football pitch is the same whatever the level.

If you've been a good player then you come to League Two, how will you cope with games on a dark, cold, wet Tuesday night? But I started at this level as a player in Italy with a club called Ternana, probably on worse pitches than League Two because they have real grass, there it was just bare earth.

You would go and play away in the south of Italy and there were Mafia people with their guns, it could be dangerous, I played in very bad areas - only the passion can push you on.

Paolo Di Canio never had a problem in his life with anyone.

What counts for you in life? The world of fact.

I do not permit anyone to offend the values I have received from my parents.

I was lucky to play with different people from all different countries in the world.

I said many times what I think in my life.

It is clear that I am a good guy, anyone can say what they want - I am a good guy.