I'm playing for the team. If I've got four goals, it's because the team are playing well.
Gabriel Batistuta
Although I have never won a major trophy, I consider myself a winner because I helped Fiorentina to compete with the big boys.
When Leo takes the record from me, it will hurt a little. But it's not just anyone taking it away. It's not a normal person. A Martian is taking it from me. That makes me feel a little better.
For me, practice and discipline are the magic words to become big in any sport, especially soccer.
I do not like football. It is just my profession.
I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that: because I gave much more than I actually had to give.
My problem is that I have no cartilage or tendons. My 86 kilos are supported by bones alone. That's what generated the pain.
If I had gone to Madrid, I would have scored more than 200 goals, but I knew I would have got bored.
Scoring a goal is just the best feeling for a striker.
The Islamic culture is a question mark for many people across the world, but Qatar opens its doors to supporters all over the world so they can learn from this old culture.
I will certainly continue in football in a different role. I will continue with my contractual, publicity and managerial commitments and finish my studies for coaching.
I like Higuain very much, but unfortunately, he isn't contributing the way he does in Europe. He's playing very well for Juve and is in the running for a lot of trophies, but if he needs a rest, then why not give Icardi a chance?
England's is a very solid squad, but I can't name a particular player; a team is all the players, and they're good.
You don't celebrate a goal differently just because it's scored against one team or the other.
I left football, and overnight, I couldn't walk. I wet the bed even though the bathroom was only three meters away. It was 4 A.M., and I knew if I stood, my ankle would kill me.
From my playing experience in Qatar, I know that it is a country and a region which will host a spectacular and passionate World Cup in 2022.
It's fun to have wingers that cross the ball for you, but when two intelligent No. 9s play together, they understand each other better than with the wingers.
I love the game and everything that goes with actually playing. What I don't like so much are the interviews, the controversy, and all the external stuff.
I know where I come from and what my roots are.
It's difficult to find gaps with 20 players in 20 metres.
Messi, even if technically is same or more, he doesn't have more charisma than Maradona had.
I go out to score goals, but I don't go out thinking about records.
All the best players wanted to come to Italy.
Looking from the outside at English football, at Spanish football, it's more interesting, and they have the champions and the celebrities that they want to see. But with the passion that Italians have for football, the pride that they have, I don't think the game will stay that way.
My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.
It goes without saying that I love the game, the tactics, the training, and everything that happens on the pitch.
I wasn't that excited about football when I was young, but it did become my passion.
Messi is a player who can play in any team.
Personally, I can't take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can't take on some kind of revenge or change history. I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play, but not because we went to war in 1982 or because we played against each other in 1998.
I know perfectly well that in football, you have good times, and you have bad times.
My relationship with the national squad is a separate thing; I've always been lucky in that, for Argentina, I've always performed well, independently of what's been going on at any club.
I've always considered Florence as my girlfriend. I don't have to explain my love for this city.
I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.
I've always liked England.
English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.
I never said I was going to play for Boca but rather that, if I went back to Argentina to play, I would do so for only one team, and that's Boca.
My thoughts on Balotelli? He's the kind of player who infuriates me. I was not born a footballer like him. I achieved what I did because of all the hard work I put in. I had to make sacrifices.
Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.
I've made a lot of sacrifices to play for Roma and Argentina, but I don't seem to get thanked for it.
You go around the world, and you say, 'I'm the top scorer for the Argentina national team.' I liked that.
To be in the national team is wonderful in it's own right. For me, playing against Brazil or Venezuela is the same.
I can see that the UAE is growing a lot as a football country, and there is plenty of opportunity to keep going and improve.
I want to broaden my horizons, speak a new language, meet new people, and experience a different culture.
It is a great pleasure for me to take on this important role as bid ambassador for the Qatar 2022 Bid, which I believe represents an essential expansion of the FIFA ideals to a new part of the world.
Having played in U.S.A. in 1994, in France in 1998, as well as the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan - the first on the Asian continent - I have witnessed the excitement and passion unleashed in those different parts of the world.
You have to win before anything else.
It would be spectacular if I could be the top scorer and win the World Cup with Argentina.
Messi is a winner.
Argentina have always had the best strikers in the world.
I am fascinated by English football.
