“At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous – it was no one’s business what car I drive – so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.”

When I got the red card all the Chelsea players come around. It felt like I had a lot of babies around me.

England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

I’m like Muhammed Ali. When he said he would knock someone out in the fourth round, he did it.

PSG’s project is to dream bigger, but if you buy Messi, you don’t dream bigger – you are bigger!

Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.

I can play in the 11 positions because a good player can play anywhere on the pitch.

You don’t need a team leader, you need quality.

Everyone is equal – a strange Swedish mentality.

Come to my house and you’ll see if I’m gay. And bring your sister.

We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend.

Kosovo is Serbian, only if my mother is a Virgin.

Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.

You can take a kid out of Rosengård, but you can never take Rosengård out of that kid.

I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year.

You always need something to complain about. And if you can’t come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don’t believe in this chitchat.

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

When you sell your service on a high price tag, you filter all the unnecessary people who aren’t willing to take action.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

However you think it should be, that’s exactly how it should be.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best.