I can win the Ballon d'Or, but only if Messi's level drops a bit. It will be very complicated to do so if he keeps up his current form. I really believe I can win the award, but there's not much I can do if Messi maintains this level.

I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.

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

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.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

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.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?