Mario Balotelli Quotes

The Ballon d'Or is one of my objectives, but it will be complicated so long as Ronaldo and Messi are around.

I will always vote for Messi for Golden Ball.

If Messi is in the mix, that's who I want to win.

Messi is the greatest, but he has always been surrounded by other great players.

I think it's nice to win awards, but my goal is not to win the Heisman: it's to get to the Rose Bowl.

I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.

My main thing over the years is to try to get on a team and be on a team that wins games.

I'm trying to win the Super Bowl. That's a team award and that's what I want.

The important thing was that I got the win. It's good for confidence and the season.

If people are looking at me in my hometown, then every woman that races against me in the peloton is as well. I can tell you, every one of them now believes that they can do it. When I go to a Cascade or Nature Valley and they race against me, the girls that are say 30 seconds from me at the races are all of a sudden saying 'I'm 30 seconds from gold I mean why can't I do this.'

That's the dream. Being on the U.S. National team and winning the World Cup. I'll take the win anyway I can get it.

When I see Messi play, in my opinion, he should win the Ballon d'Or every year. He is an unbelievable player.

I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

I was recently voted best standup never to win a major.

Remember this-I'm going to bring a championship to Miami. I promise.

Either I believe I can be the best heavyweight fighter in the world and beat everyone, or I will not. I feel I can beat everyone as a heavyweight.

I truly believe that whoever feels the most confident is usually the one to win.

Cristiano Ronaldo has done massive things in both the Premier League and in the Champions League, but Messi is the best though and I am convinced that next year he will win the Ballon d'Or.

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Being champion is just priceless. I'm not trying to sound arrogant or anything but being Olympic champ, you have every country coming together and competing. Doing what they do best, getting awards, money. Coming together and competing in the most competitive way possible with the best from all these different countries on Earth and winning. To me that's priceless.

Inches make a champion.

To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world... Messi will be the player to win the most Ballons d'Or in history. He will win five, six, seven. He is incomparable. He's in a different league.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.