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. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I know I’m good enough. I don’t need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don’t. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn’t. They did not even ask me for any autographs. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
People often write after they finish their career, or they don’t play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let’s do it differently. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don’t learn. Quality you are born with. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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. – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
