1. “I do not need a trophy to tell me I am the best.”
2. “The older I get, the better I get. like red wine.”
3. “First I went left; he did too. Then I went right and he did too. Then I went left again and he went to buy a hot dog.”- After humiliating Liverpool’s Steven Henchoz
4. “Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.”
5. “No way, Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.”
6. “I can’t help but laugh at how perfect I am.”
7. “When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.”
8. “What do you mean, ‘present?’ She got Zlatan.”- On his ex-girlfriend’s engagement gift.
9. “I came like a king, I left like a legend.”- When Zlatan left PSG
10. “We are looking for an apartment; if we do not find anything, then we will buy a hotel.”
11. “Give them a bicycle with my autograph and that will be enough.”
12. “What [John] Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.”- Asked what he thought of Carew’s flicks and tricks from a game
13. “I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else.”
14. “I can play in the eleven positions because a good player can play anywhere.”
15. “It’s true I don’t know much about the players here, but they definitely know who I am.”- After he arrived in France to play for Paris Saint Germain in 2012.
16. Zlatan: “Only God knows who will go through.”
Reporter: “It’s hard to ask him.”
Zlatan: “You’re talking to him.
-Speaking to a reporter about who would qualify for the 2014 World Cup
17. “When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway and you step on the gas. Guardiola filled up with diesel and took a spin in the countryside. He should have bought a Fiat.”
18. “Absolutely not. I have ordered a plane. It is much faster.”- When asked if he had purchased a Porsche
19. “A World Cup without me is nothing to watch, so it is not worth waiting for the World Cup.” – When Portugal knocked Sweden out in the play-offs.
20. “I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or in kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.”- His response to Mario Balotelli’s fireworks incident.
21. “I didn’t injure you on purpose and you know that. If you accuse me again I’ll break both your legs, and that time it will be on purpose.”
22. “I don’t believe they can change the Eiffel Tower for my statue, even the people behind the club. But if they can, I will stay here — I promise you.” – PSG were that close to keeping him.
23. “Who needs a nickname? To be afraid of me, just watch me play”- After being told Radamel Falcao’s, was nicknamed “The Tiger.”
24. “I won’t be the King of Manchester, I will be the God of Manchester.”
25. “Guardiola was staring at me and I lost it. I thought ‘there is my enemy, scratching his bald head!’. I yelled to him: ‘You have no balls”
26. “Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don’t learn. Quality you are born with.”
27. “I came, I said, I conquered.”- When Ibrahimovic left Man Utd.
28. “If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive.”
29. “We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend”
30. “I came, I saw, I conquered. Thank you LA Galaxy for making me feel alive again. To the Galaxy fans - you wanted Zlatan, I gave you Zlatan. You are welcome. The story continues... Now go back to watch baseball”
