“I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.”

“I eat football, I sleep football, I breathe football. I'm not mad, I'm just passionate.”

“There's nothing I'm scared of in football.”

“You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.”

“It's not about me, it's about what I can help the team achieve. And I do that through scoring goals.”

“Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn't spur me on—it's helping my team to success. That's my only aim.”

“I'm still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself.”

“There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard."

"Barcelona is always a club that, at the beginning of the season, wants to win everything. I will try my best to do that with them and I'm sure I will help as much as I can."

“Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience…when I was young I wasn't scared about anything."

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