The talent God gave me is beautiful and wonderful, but it is difficult because you are always facing other people keen to judge you. There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.

To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.

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.

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

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.

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.