Mario Balotelli Quotes

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

Real are the best club in the world. Any footballer dreams about playing there, and I am no different.

This is what you dream about as a footballer: playing with the best and against the best in Europe.

Bayern is one of the best teams in the world - on a par with Real Madrid and Barcelona. A move to Barca or Real wouldn't have been a step up for me.

I've dreamed of playing in the Premier League since I was a young boy.

Obviously, when I was playing in the Championship, I always dreamed about playing for England, putting on the jersey.

I would really like to be at Barca because it is the best team in the world. I would like to be in the first team, but also, I know it is very complicated, as there are very good players.

Real Madrid were the ideal club for me, and, when I knew they were interested, I couldn't think about anything else.

Everyone who has played in the Champions League wants to get back to playing in it again.

Arsenal have always been a dream of mine and I always thought one day I would go there.

My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United?

If I ever leave Fiorentina, I would very much like to go to Manchester United because out of the three best teams in Europe - United, Lazio, and Barcelona - Manchester, in my opinion, is the best.

Real Madrid? Any player would like to play for them.

When I left Porto, I knew that I wanted to return to Real Madrid and play.

You wanted me to do what? That I say no a second time to Barcelona? It was impossible for me. I'm in a crazy club there, next to the best. Every year, the club is semi-finalist or finalist of the Champions League!

I hope I can get many goals for Real Madrid.

Who wouldn't want to play for Real Madrid? Like Manchester, they are one of the best clubs in the world - and it would be a pleasure to play for them.

You see the likes of the Barcelonas and Real Madrids, and you always want to play against them and, obviously, Bayern Munich too.

My dream is Chelsea. They are great, and my objective is to play there.

Al Ain are among the absolute best in Asia. When explaining their place in football in this part of the world, they are compared with Barcelona or Real Madrid.

Juventus in Italy are like Real Madrid in Spain, when you enter the team it feels different.

They are among the three best in the world: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar are the three best players in the world and I'm happy I have one of them playing alongside me.

When we are little, we always dream, and the first teams that come into your head are those on the world stage for their marketing, their image, their publicity. That makes you dream about how nice it would be to play for Real Madrid, to play for Barcelona.

I was close to Napoli and it's true that I did hope to one day play for them, but I am so happy here that after arriving at Lazio, I stopped thinking about it.

I like Chelsea, Milan and Inter. I have always followed the two Italian teams because my role models when I was young were Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, and they played for those teams.