Mario Balotelli famous quotes

There's only one that is a little stronger than me: Messi. All the others are behind me.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Stronger #Littles #Messi

You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Racism #People #Smoking

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Football #Mourinho #Coaches

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?
-- Mario Balotelli

#Jobs #Athlete #Doe

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Winning #Thinking #Giving

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Jail #Racism #Bananas

I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with racism everyday. I'm the first black to wear the jersey of Italy. I'm not angry, but my life experiencies make me act differently from other people. Then, try to learn more before you criticize me.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Angel #Italian #Two

When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Want #Temper

I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Believe #Intelligent #Average

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Football #Italian #Play

Jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Men #Black #Coins

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Children #Never Forget #Abandonment

You speak bad of me, I score goals.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Goal #Speak #Score

Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Football #Winning #Europe

When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?
-- Mario Balotelli

#Football #Jobs #Doe

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Children #Responsibility #Role Models

I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Football #Men #Wish

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Journalist

I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Golf #Quiet

I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Player #Goal #Want

Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Responsibility #Winning #Too Much

It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Children #Responsibility #Looks

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?
-- Mario Balotelli

#Vote #Should #Interest

For me, my mother is everything.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Mother

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Hate #People #Know Me

To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Football #Play #Atmosphere

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Thinking #People #Arrogant

America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Country #Air #America

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Stupid #People #Racist

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Italian #One Day #Proud

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Gossip #Use #Stories

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Dad #Boys #Would Be

Rooney's good but not the best in Manchester.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Football #Rooney

I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian.
-- Mario Balotelli

#School #Italian #Proud

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Racism #People #Tough

I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!
-- Mario Balotelli

#Different #Dinner

Racism springs from ignorance.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Spring #Ignorance #Racism

I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.
-- Mario Balotelli

#World #Want #Annoying

There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Judging #People #Able

Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"
-- Mario Balotelli

#Football #Littles #Lucky

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Reflection #Who I Am

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Thinking #Rebel #Genius

I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Player #Feelings #Attention

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.
-- Mario Balotelli

#Strong #Believe #Enough