"If you want me to be horrible, I can be horrible. Yet if you treat people with respect, they give you 100 percent. I have seen people being horrible to others and they receive nothing. I stick to my philosophy and this won't change it."

-- West Ham coach Gianfranco Zola after his team's co-owner David Sullivan told the press that he wondered if Zola was "too nice." Zola also, in a bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you rant also slammed Sullivan for telling the media, on the eve of a key game, that he would be asking players and coach to take a 25 percent paycut. (The Sun)