Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"

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.

Don't expect people to understand your purpose when God didn't give them your vision.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.

I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.

All this green stuff is great, it's great we don't have plastic bottles or plastic bags and all of that, but how about some great schools?

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.