Top 44 Kevin-Prince Boateng Quotes

A return to the Bundesliga would be super.

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

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.’

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.

We have a duty to face racism and to fight it.

I know that Spurs are a team who like to play offensive football.

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?

I’m happy to have met Klopp.

I’m not the kind of person who goes into the dressing room and says: ‘I’m the Guv here.’ But maybe I give off the aura that I’m the kind of person who can be a big player.

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

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

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

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

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.

The concept ‘a bit racist’ doesn’t exist. There are no tolerable quantities of racism. It’s unacceptable regardless of where it happens or the form that it takes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

In football, things change quickly.

I’ve earned a lot of money, seen everything, and have a wonderful family. What else can I do?

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

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.

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.

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

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

I put a portion of my salary to the side.

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.

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.

Yes, I am the best footballer in the world.

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

I think everyone does crazy things in life.

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 chose Schalke for a couple of reasons. I wanted to go back home, to be close to my little boy, and it’s a great club.

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.

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

I want to play at a good level for as long as possible and just stay healthy.

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

I don’t like my first name.

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

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

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.