Zlatan Ibrahimovic

“I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.”

“I always drive like a madman.”

“I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.”

“I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.”

“I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.”

“People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.”

“When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.”

“Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're at school with a load of 10-year-old boys and you tell them to jump, everyone will start to jump. But the intelligent boy will ask, 'Why should I jump? Why?' That can be difficult for a lot of coaches, and I understand that.”

“The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.”

“I did many stupid things. I made many mistakes, but I learnt from everything. I still make mistakes; I still learn from them. Nobody is perfect.”

“People trash talk me.”

“I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.”

“I do love cars.”

“You were born as the one you are.”

“If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?”

“Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.”

“If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.”

“I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.”

“I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.”

“People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.”