To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.

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.

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can't please everyone, so don't try.

Ten minutes of meditation a day, keeps the psychiatrist away.

Frailty, thy name is human!

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

It's not enough for an official to be good. There has to be a system that forces them to be good.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.