"I've never lacked guts, for good or bad."
"There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela."
"Fans don't care what's in your private life, what happened in your past, where you come from. If you don't perform, they judge."
"I still have a picture: three cars, big house, I'm standing there like I'm 50 Cent. I look at it sometimes and say, 'Look how stupid you were.' But that made me who I am, and I can look back and see it. I've learned. I grew up. I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and thought, 'No, that's not me. I don't want to be that. I'm a footballer.'"
"I grew up with all cultures in the world."
"I had a lot of money for a 20-year-old."
"You end up trying to buy happiness. I bought a Lamborghini. Wow! I was happy for a week. After that, I didn't even use the car. Who drives around Loughton in a Lamborghini?"
"I'm happy to have met Klopp."
"Just having people saying no to racism on a commercial changes nothing."
"The Champions League without Milan is not the Champions League."
"Am I the Cristiano Ronaldo of Sassuolo? Maybe yes, but I'm 500 goals away."
"Players like Rio Ferdinand and Patrick Vieira have supported me, and I just want to say thank you."
"There are so many people, FIFA or whatever, that can do something against this. They should wake up and do it. If there is a racism, those people should be banned from the stadium forever. They should not even enter the stadium anymore. Never again. That's the first thing they can do."
"Cristiano - he has it all. He has a right foot, left foot, is good in the air, so quick."
"Lionel Messi is not human. He is from another galaxy."
"Don't ask me about Real Madrid - it's just the past."
"We are in the year 2013, and racism is still amongst us and is still a problem. It's not simply an argument for the History Channel or something that belongs to the past or something that only happens in other countries."
"Stadiums can be places where people of different colour come to support their teams, or they can be seen as stagnant areas where healthy people will be infected by racism."
"When I played for Ghana, I learned how to fight malaria. Simple vaccines are not enough. You also have to dry out infected areas where the carriers proliferate. I think that racism and malaria have a lot in common."
"Many sportsmen, like myself and my team-mates, artists, and musicians all have unique chances and responsibilities to make themselves heard. We have the possibility to reach the parts that political speeches will never reach."
"In two years, I spent all my money on cars, watches, boots, discos, restaurants, and friends who, in reality, were not friends at all. For a boy like me, who grew up in a poor neighbourhood and without money, it was dangerous."
"When I was younger, I didn't work hard because I could rely on my talent. That's not the right way."
"In my life, there's been a lot of partying."
"In football, things change quickly."
"At my club, Portsmouth, my foot pains were diagnosed as a strain of the syndesmotic ligament."
