KEVIN-PRINCE BOATENG

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.

For young people who are football players, Ronaldo should be the best in the world. He is the best example to look at because he trains to the fullest and has talent.

Just like in everything else, there are people in football who you don't particularly like.

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.

Everyone thinks footballers have a great life and drive great cars, but sometimes you have to pull the veil away and look behind.

Every single person I spoke with, when I said I might perhaps be moving to Modena, told me how great the food is, so much so that I had to say, 'I'm here to play football, not to open a restaurant!'

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

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 still have a picture: three cars, big house, I'm standing there like I'm 50 Cent. I look at it sometimes and say, 'Look how stupid you were.' But that made me who I am, and I can look back and see it. I've learned. I grew up. I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and thought, 'No, that's not me. I don't want to be that. I'm a footballer.'

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

Players like Rio Ferdinand and Patrick Vieira have supported me, and I just want to say thank you.

In football, things change quickly.

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

At Portsmouth, I showed what I could do, the kind of football I was capable of.

I think we should not accept and tolerate racism anywhere, in any game, whether it's a friendly game or a World Cup final, or it's a Champions League final.

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.

If I would have had the absolute will, I would have been a starting XI player at Barcelona or would have played 10 years for Real Madrid or Manchester United.

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

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

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

Sometimes I wake up, and I'm a little bit grumpy, and I listen to soul. Sometimes I wake up, and I need some spirit, so I listen to rock n' roll. It depends on the mood I'm in.

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.

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.

The Champions League without Milan is not the Champions League.

Don't ask me about Real Madrid - it's just the past.