Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Kevin-Prince Boateng

I put a portion of my salary to the side.

Don't ask me about Real Madrid - it's just the past.

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.'

In my life, there's been a lot of partying.

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.

Lionel Messi is not human. He is from another galaxy.

At my club, Portsmouth, my foot pains were diagnosed as a strain of the syndesmotic ligament.

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 can honestly tell you that playing against Messi is very difficult.

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.

Barcelona is the best club in the world; My team-mates are Ousmane Dembele, Philippe Coutinho, Luis Suarez, or King Lionel Messi.

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

Ronaldo dominates this world, and Messi is above everything else.

Basketball is one of my favourite sports; I love playing it and watching it on TV.

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.

The Champions League without Milan is not the Champions League.

I know - without sounding arrogant - that I could've played at Real Madrid... but I didn't work hard enough for that.

I could hear from the crowd some monkey noises, and this went on for about 25 minutes. Every time I touched the ball, I could hear the crowd. I said to myself, 'In this kind of environment, in this situation, I don't want to play football anymore.'

I know what's it like when everyone has a go at you, when criticism is harsh, and your family is part of it. This drags you down, and you can't get on with your life.

I had a lot of money for a 20-year-old.

I bought three cars in one day. For a high six-figure sum, I got a Lamborghini, a Hummer, and a Cadillac Oldtimer.

I think Sassuolo are a serious club who play great football, keeping the ball, and are almost Spanish in style.

I've never lacked guts, for good or bad.

Players like Rio Ferdinand and Patrick Vieira have supported me, and I just want to say thank you.

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.

I believe it's not 100 percent right to kneel during the national anthem, because you have to respect what many have done for this nation. I think kneeling prior to the anthem, like the Dallas Cowboys have done, is right.

A return to the Bundesliga would be super.

Just having people saying no to racism on a commercial changes nothing.

I'm happy to have met Klopp.

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!'

Am I the Cristiano Ronaldo of Sassuolo? Maybe yes, but I'm 500 goals away.

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.

I don't like my first name.

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.

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.

At my age - 31, nearly 32 - the No. 9 role is perfect for me. But it is important to adapt to whatever the team and the coach need.

Under pressure, I play best.

The Champions League is a very special one, as everyone switches one gear up.

I love Italy. I always said that some part of me is Italian since I moved to Milano.

For young people who are football players, Ronaldo should be the best in the world. He is the best example to look at because he trains to the fullest and has talent.

I want to be 100 per cent; I want to give everything when I come to play for Ghana.

I've always wanted to work with De Zerbi, and I think he is a genius in his vision of football.

Yes, I am the best footballer in the world.

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.

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.

Racism is real; it exists here and now. You can find it on the streets, in your office, and in football stadiums.

When I was younger, I didn't work hard because I could rely on my talent. That's not the right way.

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.

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.

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?

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.

In what transcends this world, the best is Messi because he is incredible: he does things that nobody can do.

In football, things change quickly.

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.

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.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.

I grew up with all cultures in the world.

There was always football in my family: my dad, big and little brothers, even my mum used to play.

Cristiano - he has it all. He has a right foot, left foot, is good in the air, so quick.

Sometimes I wake up, and I'm a little bit grumpy, and I listen to soul. Sometimes I wake up, and I need some spirit, so I listen to rock n' roll. It depends on the mood I'm in.