A dream doesn't become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
Kevin-Prince Boateng
There are many different types of racism from people of different colours and nationalities. There is no vaccine to fight this and no antibiotics to take. It's a dangerous and infectious virus which is strengthened by indifference and inaction.
We have a duty to face racism and to fight it.
Racism is real; it exists here and now. You can find it on the streets, in your office, and in football stadiums.
I bought three cars in one day. For a high six-figure sum, I got a Lamborghini, a Hummer, and a Cadillac Oldtimer.
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.
Everybody has struggles in life, and mine was to come out of a tough area in Berlin. It helped me a lot on my way to becoming a professional footballer, to being an idol and a good role model.
Every single person I spoke with, when I said I might perhaps be moving to Modena, told me how great the food is, so much so that I had to say, 'I'm here to play football, not to open a restaurant!'
When you're young, you don't think about what you want to be. I was just playing football because I had fun and enjoyed it. When I reached 16, that's when I was dreaming about becoming a footballer.
In what transcends this world, the best is Messi because he is incredible: he does things that nobody can do.
I don't like my first name.
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 should have been called Kelvin. That would have been a top name: Kelvin-Prince. That was a mistake on the birth certificate - no one knows that.
I want to play at a good level for as long as possible and just stay healthy.
A return to the Bundesliga would be super.
I'm someone who likes to live it up.
Barcelona is the best club in the world; My team-mates are Ousmane Dembele, Philippe Coutinho, Luis Suarez, or King Lionel Messi.
Yes, I am the best footballer in the world.
I had a lot of money for a 20-year-old.
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.
Money is important, but it's not everything.
For me, it is amazing to be in England. To be in London and playing for Spurs will be great for me.
I love Italy. I always said that some part of me is Italian since I moved to Milano.
The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.
I want to be 100 per cent; I want to give everything when I come to play for Ghana.
I put a portion of my salary to the side.
Social networking sites are an easy way to insult people. People have sent me messages saying that they are praying for me to get injured. Such messages are not nice, because I love playing football: I love playing for my club; I love playing football for Ghana.
There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.
I think we should not accept and tolerate racism anywhere, in any game, whether it's a friendly game or a World Cup final, or it's a Champions League final.
There was always football in my family: my dad, big and little brothers, even my mum used to play.
Basketball is one of my favourite sports; I love playing it and watching it on TV.
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.'
My mum and dad used to listen to a lot of R&B and soul, so this was the way I grew up. Hip-hop, of course. But then as I grew older, I started listening to everything.
I've never lacked guts, for good or bad.
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 grew up with all cultures in the world.
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.
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.
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.
