Zlatan Quotes

You can take the kid away from the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto away from the kid

At Balkan, it was more like, ‘I’ll do your mum up the arse.’ They were mental Yugoslavs who smoked like chimneys and flung their boots about, and I thought, Great, just like at home.

I like being around warriors, and Mihajlović was a bruiser. He always did everything to win.

I learned one important thing over those years. If a guy like me was going to get respect, he had to be five times better than the others. He had to train ten times harder. Otherwise, he didn't have a chance. Especially if he had been a bike thief.

But he didn’t meet any burglars. It was my Xbox, which was still on and had been humming along for three weeks, ever since I’d dashed off to take Juventus’s private plane to Milan.

vi skulle bli 2pac og zlatan og jordan og tyson og elden og banksy og gründer som musk så det var ikke drømmer vi mangla men håp og derfor vi er her i dag og blir chapo

As it was mid-afternoon in New York, one of his most dangerous men answered on the second ring. “Please, tell me Pivchenko has surfaced,” Lucian unabashedly begged. “I’m sorry,” Zlatan said with a mix of apology and frustration in his voice. “There is no sign of him yet.

It's true I don't know much people, but they definitely know who I am.

There was the thought that this would send me into retirement. I sent their entire country into retirement.

Why be a Fiat when you can be a Ferrari.

When the pressure gets unbearable, make it even hotter. You have to show pressure who the boss is.

Först gick jag vänster och det gjorde han också. Sen gick jag höger och det gjorde han också. Sen stack jag vänster, och då gick han och köpte korv.

What was relegation into the second division, when my Dad had just become my biggest fan?

U sred nedodjije, stari drveni most je zlatan most

Engleska je zemlja starih običaja, starih ideja i starih ljudi. O običajima se ne misli jer se podrazumevaju, idejama se ne bavi jer je to beskorisno, o starosti i smrti se ne govori jer je neučtivo. - Čaj u pet ili Izlet u Zlatan grad

Uticaji Rafaela iz Urbina raspršili su se na sve strane posle njegove smrti, ali jedan od njegovih učenika, po imenu Tomazo iz Bolonje, dobar slikar, poželeo je da me upozna pa je došao i poklonio mi zlatan prsten, antikvitet s lepo izrezanim kamenom vrednik 5 florina, ali ja sam već dobio dvostruko veću ponudu za isti taj prsten; za uzvrat, poklonio sam mu najbolje gravure, vredne 6 florina. U ponedeljak, posle Aranđelovdana, 1520, Tomazu iz Bolonje dao celu zbirku otisaka da, za moj račun, otpremi u Rim jednom drugom slikaru, koji će mi za uzvrat poslati Rafaelov rad.

There are a few moments I will see on the internet when I retire and I’ll tell myself they’re amazing. I’ll ask myself how even I could have achieved such feats.” Zlatan on retiring “We’re looking for an apartment in Paris. If we don’t find anything, then I’ll probably just buy the hotel.” Zlatan on relocating his family after joining Paris Saint-Germain “You can’t coach brilliance like that.” On his amazing 30-yard overhead kick goal for Sweden against England in 2012 “Jose Mourinho is a big star. The first time he met my partner he said, ‘Helena, you have

one mission. Feed Zlatan, let him sleep, keep him happy’. That guy says whatever he wants. I like him.” On his bromance with Mourinho “The Barca players were like schoolboys, following the coach blindly. Whereas I was used to asking, ‘Why should we?’” The forward explains what it was like to play at Barcelona “I can’t help but laugh at how perfect I am.” Zlatan is as modest as ever Reporter: “You’ve got some scars on your face, Zlatan. What has happened?” Zlatan: “Well... I don’t know... You’ll have to ask your wife about that.” Agent Anders Carlsson: “Southampton...Southampton is interested.” Zlatan: “What the f*ck! Southampton! Is that my level? Southampton!” Unsettled at Ajax, Zlatan asks his agent if any clubs offered him a way out “You can’t be a clown all the time.” Zlatan on growing up after five months at Ajax “Hi @Twitter. For tomorrow Zlatan needs more than 140 characters. Please change rules for Zlatan.” He tweeted this ahead of a Q&A on social media. The following are some of his best replies to fan questions... “There are 2 things Zlatan cannot do @at_sunshine. One is be predictable. The other is a step-under. But Zlatan is practising. #DareToZlatan.

c*nts. I responded by saying if anybody was a c*nt, it

Messi,

Bolji je dobar glas nego zlatan pojas.

When I got home to Piazza Castello, everything was swimming around me, and I thought, I’ll take a shower, maybe that’ll help. But everything kept spinning. As soon as I moved my head, the whole world moved along with it, and finally I fell asleep in the bathtub. I was woken up by Helena, who just laughed at me. I’ve told her never to breathe a word about it.

I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

But Ali I knew. What a legend! He did things his own way, no matter what people said. He didn’t make excuses, and I’ve never forgotten that. That guy was cool. That’s the way I wanted to be, and I imitated some of his things, like I am the greatest. You needed to have a tough attitude in Rosengård, and if you heard anybody talking trash—the worst was to be called a pussy—you couldn’t back down.

Se avessi voluto occuparmi di politica, avrei fatto il politico. Invece ho fatto l’atleta. L’atleta unisce, il politico divide.

God knows, there are a lot of people who want to take credit for my career. Almost all of it is bullshit—ridiculous attempts by people to ride on my coattails—but there are a few guys who’ve really meant a lot. Roland Andersson is one, and Beenhakker is another. They believed in me when others doubted. I hope I can do similar things myself when I get older. Not just complain about those who are different and say, Look, now he’s dribbling again, Now he’s doing this and that; but think a step ahead.

What John Carew does with a soccer ball, I can do with an orange.

You think I’m going to be able to sell you with statistics like these?” he said, and I thought, What is this, some kind of attack? I retaliated. “If I’d scored twenty goals, even my mother could have sold me,” and silenced him.

Zlatan, it’s time for you to stop playing with the little kids.” With the little kids? What’s he talking about, I thought, and what on earth have I done to the little kids? “It’s time for you to start playing with the big boys.” I still didn’t get it. “Huh?” “Welcome to the first team, lad,” he continued, and honestly, I cannot describe the feeling, not in a million years.

I give 100 per cent from the first session, on the first day of training, because training is when you start winning. There’s not a single match that I don’t consider part of the finals, because every match has a winner and a loser, and I want to be the winner, every time. That’s what I wanted to teach the Americans; that’s how I wanted to help them grow.

Right from the beginning of my whole story I’d vowed one thing over all others: whatever happens to me – success, wealth, fame – I won’t change. I have to remain myself, because if I change, I’ll disappoint myself. If I came up from the street, I have to remain exactly who I was, the same person, even if I make it to the top.

An athlete unites people, a politician divides them. It’s been my good luck, thanks to sport, to get to know other guys from all over the world. We live in the same dressing room, and we fight as one. If it hadn’t been for football, I would never have met them, and I’d know nothing about their cultures. Are you a Muslim? Are you a Catholic? It doesn’t matter. All that matters is basic respect in the dressing room.

I don’t know them personally, but Maradona struck me as more authentic: he did everything from the heart; he was never afraid to talk, to run risks; he had no filter, he didn’t care about presenting a perfect self-image. When he made a mistake, it was a mistake from the heart. That’s why he touched you more than anyone else. Nowadays 95 per cent of all footballers have a filter around them and seem obsessed with projecting a perfect image. I don’t even know what that’s about. As far as I’m concerned, you can only be yourself, and you’re only perfect if you manage this. Make mistakes, learn from your mistakes. In time you’ll make more mistakes. But you’ll remain yourself. But these players have an entourage of people around them, protecting them, shielding them, to create this perfect image, and so people think: ‘Oh, this is a wonderful person.’ But it’s not necessarily true; they’re just hidden behind a filter. Maradona never gave a thought to his image, but he followed his instincts.

If I was asked to choose a friend from history to have dinner with, I’d definitely pick Muhammad Ali, because he was the same person, inside and out. He practised what he preached, even if it meant going to prison, in a time of social division – a time of war and racial tensions. When you manage to send out important messages from the platform afforded to a world champion athlete, messages that reach around the world, then you’re something far more than simply an athlete. You’re an icon, a symbol – everything. I would have loved to spend some time chatting with him.

Teambuilding er ikke for filosoffer. Forestil dig at spise knækbrød i en kantine fuld af filosoffer. Alle de vrede blikke, der ville blive rettet mod en og ens spegepølsemad. Stakkels Sverige. Knækbrødet har gjort det umuligt for dem at tænke frit. Zlatan er deres største tænker. I Norge er det bedre, har jeg hørt. Det skyldes sikkert, at landet næsten er tomt. Helt stille.

Быть не такими, как все - это прекрасно. Продолжайте оставаться самими собой.

Who needs a nickname? To be afraid of me, just watch me play.

A good player can play anywhere.

Mi hanno chiesto spesso, ovviamente, che cosa avrei fatto se non fossi diventato un calciatore. Non ne ho la più pallida idea. Forse sarei diventato un criminale.