For me, my mother is everything.

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

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

There's only one that is a little stronger than me: Messi. All the others are behind me.

Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.

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.