It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead I buy a Ferrari, they'll write that I should have kept my feet on the ground and bought a Fiat. If I smile, I'm not serious. If I don't smile, I'm a rich sulker that doesn't enjoy having the most beautiful job in the world.

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.

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

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

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.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.