I am very ambitious. I want to enjoy this and then really go for it.

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.

I have ambitions I want to fulfil, to enjoy more success with Brazil.

I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my specialty, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.

I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.

I like playing in Italy. It was a challenge I wanted since very early in my career.

My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.