I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.

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.

Where there is even the subtlest desire, the ‘Eternal Thing’ cannot be attained.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness.

The field (which is what spirit is, a field of pure potentiality) is a continuum of all possible energy and information states that will subsequently manifest themselves as space-time events.

I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

But sometimes it is necessary to do that which is too much.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.