Gabriel Batistuta

I am fascinated by English football.

I want to expand my horizons and mix with different people.

I'm content with what I have done in my career.

It's difficult to find gaps with 20 players in 20 metres.

I would like to give my best and score as many goals as possible.

This is the World Cup, and you need all the elements in place: a good coach, luck, and a cohesive team unit are fundamental requirements.

Sometimes the logic of football has no value at all.

I have had a positive experience in Qatar. It has not been too challenging, and it has given my ankles a rest!

A season with Fiorentina in Serie A? I could certainly try again.

Bielsa knows everything about everything.

Argentina have always had the best strikers in the world.

Messi is a winner.

When Leo takes the record from me, it will hurt a little. But it's not just anyone taking it away. It's not a normal person. A Martian is taking it from me. That makes me feel a little better.

It would be spectacular if I could be the top scorer and win the World Cup with Argentina.

You have to win before anything else.

From my playing experience in Qatar, I know that it is a country and a region which will host a spectacular and passionate World Cup in 2022.

Having played in U.S.A. in 1994, in France in 1998, as well as the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan - the first on the Asian continent - I have witnessed the excitement and passion unleashed in those different parts of the world.

It is a great pleasure for me to take on this important role as bid ambassador for the Qatar 2022 Bid, which I believe represents an essential expansion of the FIFA ideals to a new part of the world.

In Argentina, everyone knows Manchester United, but the only ones who've heard of Fiorentina are people who follow me.

I like Higuain very much, but unfortunately, he isn't contributing the way he does in Europe. He's playing very well for Juve and is in the running for a lot of trophies, but if he needs a rest, then why not give Icardi a chance?

The number 9 has to be the one who scores the goals.

I have no intention of coaching Boca Juniors, and no-one from the club has approached me to do so.

Messi, even if technically is same or more, he doesn't have more charisma than Maradona had.

My problem is that I have no cartilage or tendons. My 86 kilos are supported by bones alone. That's what generated the pain.

I left football, and overnight, I couldn't walk. I wet the bed even though the bathroom was only three meters away. It was 4 A.M., and I knew if I stood, my ankle would kill me.

Although I have never won a major trophy, I consider myself a winner because I helped Fiorentina to compete with the big boys.

I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.

I go out to score goals, but I don't go out thinking about records.

I want to win the Italian league. That's why I said no to Manchester United.

Scoring a goal is just the best feeling for a striker.

I am preparing myself to leave football. I have always thought that once you get past 30, it is time to reflect on when you should go, and that is what I have done.

I will end my career with Roma.

In my heart, it is possible that I would like to have an experience in England. I will wait for the right moment. I would like to give my utmost for the Florentines and then leave.

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.

I will certainly continue in football in a different role. I will continue with my contractual, publicity and managerial commitments and finish my studies for coaching.

I want to broaden my horizons, speak a new language, meet new people, and experience a different culture.

I'm playing for the team. If I've got four goals, it's because the team are playing well.

You go around the world, and you say, 'I'm the top scorer for the Argentina national team.' I liked that.

I came to Roma because the president here and the coach have a great will to win, and that's what I have, too.

If I had gone to Madrid, I would have scored more than 200 goals, but I knew I would have got bored.

I've always considered Florence as my girlfriend. I don't have to explain my love for this city.

I never said I was going to play for Boca but rather that, if I went back to Argentina to play, I would do so for only one team, and that's Boca.

I wasn't that excited about football when I was young, but it did become my passion.

Looking from the outside at English football, at Spanish football, it's more interesting, and they have the champions and the celebrities that they want to see. But with the passion that Italians have for football, the pride that they have, I don't think the game will stay that way.

I know perfectly well that in football, you have good times, and you have bad times.

I know where I come from and what my roots are.

I lived and breathed football. Now I have difficulty walking because of that: because I gave much more than I actually had to give.

It's fun to have wingers that cross the ball for you, but when two intelligent No. 9s play together, they understand each other better than with the wingers.

I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.

I received many offers - namely from Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Milan - but I preferred the tranquillity of playing for Fiorentina.