My problem is that I have no cartilage or tendons. My 86 kilos are supported by bones alone. That's what generated the pain.
I do not like football. It is just my profession.
For me, practice and discipline are the magic words to become big in any sport, especially soccer.
I will certainly continue in football in a different role. I will continue with my contractual, publicity and managerial commitments and finish my studies for coaching.
It's difficult to find gaps with 20 players in 20 metres.
You don't celebrate a goal differently just because it's scored against one team or the other.
Messi, even if technically is same or more, he doesn't have more charisma than Maradona had.
If I had gone to Madrid, I would have scored more than 200 goals, but I knew I would have got bored.
I go out to score goals, but I don't go out thinking about records.
I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that: because I gave much more than I actually had to give.
All the best players wanted to come to Italy.
Looking from the outside at English football, at Spanish football, it's more interesting, and they have the champions and the celebrities that they want to see. But with the passion that Italians have for football, the pride that they have, I don't think the game will stay that way.
My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.
It goes without saying that I love the game, the tactics, the training, and everything that happens on the pitch.
I wasn't that excited about football when I was young, but it did become my passion.
I love the game and everything that goes with actually playing. What I don't like so much are the interviews, the controversy, and all the external stuff.
Messi is a player who can play in any team.
Personally, I can't take the blame for what politicians did in 1982. I can't take on some kind of revenge or change history. I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play, but not because we went to war in 1982 or because we played against each other in 1998.
England's is a very solid squad, but I can't name a particular player; a team is all the players, and they're good.
I know perfectly well that in football, you have good times, and you have bad times.
