I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

There's only one that is a little stronger than me: Messi. All the others are behind me.

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.

I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.

I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

. . . if you can't see the good man he is, you need to unscrew them eyeballs of yours and try on a different pair.

Fear is the worst kind of grave, because it buries one alive.

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.

Honor is overrated.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Race has no place in American life or law.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.