When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.
Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.
If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
I'm not difficult to work with, trust me.
I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.
Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.
Never judge a person if you don't know him.
You never forget where you come from.
When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.
Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're at school with a load of 10-year-old boys and you tell them to jump, everyone will start to jump. But the intelligent boy will ask, 'Why should I jump? Why?' That can be difficult for a lot of coaches, and I understand that.
One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
