When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

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.

Courage is not beating up the bully or letting the bully beat you up, it is standing strong before the bully and seeing him for what he truly is: a child of God in need of an attitude adjustment.

Let go of the heavy pains of yesterday and you will feel lighter to float on top with your values. Arise and float!

rational of whatever is happening all around came together in a train of light which, when it traverse in return, is the pervasive expression of one's own mind

I'm a horrible romantic!

When you figure out love is all that matters after all, it sure makes everything else seem so small.

We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.

I'm definitely never going to be a biker. I'm scared of cars so the idea of riding a motorcycle is just never going to be something that I'm into.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.