Samuel Eto'o Quotes

What made me change my mind was when the coach came and told me the only way of making these people shut up was by winning against them.

Maybe they made a mistake once, but two years running? It was almost the whole stadium. Is there a problem with being black?

Perhaps only a miracle can stop us, but miracles exist and happen. We've got to carry on working to avoid this happening and so we can get to the end of the season and say Barcelona are the champions.

Football is sometimes like this. We played really well but wasted far too many chances tonight...we should really have eliminated them already.

That game shouldn't affect us. One of the most important things for a player is to be able to forget about the previous game.

I don't fear Madrid but I do respect them. The same as any other previous year.

This does a lot of harm. If sometimes they treat me like a white man because they think I earn a lot of money, imagine how they must treat the black kid who peddles things on the street.

From kick off I had to put up with the abuse, and celebrating the goal like that was better because I was able to get rid of all my rage. And it causes less problems than making an ugly gesture to the crowd.

We need to go into our match with Milan to play as if it were the last game. I think we'll have problems if we go to Milan waiting to see what happens.

From the start of the game I had to put up with the chants and celebrating the goal the way I did helped me get rid of some of the anger.

I just can't understand why the fans often behave this way. I had to put up with racist chanting right from the start and celebrating a goal that way was better than making an ugly gesture to the crowd as it let out all the anger.

And it causes less problems than making an ugly gesture to the crowd.

It's still not won. We have a lead, there's six rounds left, but the aim must not be to concentrate only on Europe.

But I'm not going there thinking I'm going to take it easy and save myself for next week's return match against Milan.

I can't see the Eiffel Tower yet. We're only halfway there. Soccer is so crazy that things can turn around at any moment. We have to keep calm heads even if our hearts are hot.

Let's win the league title and then I think we'll be able to concentrate on the Champions League.

The important thing is that all the players stick together to fight against bad influences in football.

We should all unite to fight these kinds of racist acts.

Madrid, you bastards, salute the champions!

I find it positive to be seated here next to great players, who are part of the dream of thousands and thousands of Africans. Just a few years ago, I was kicking a ball in a street in Cameroon.

We have a young squad and one that is capable of keeping this up for some time to come.

The team can function without me as no one player is untouchable. Barca have players of the highest quality and I know whichever player comes in for me will do well.

If they want to treat me like a monkey then I'll dance like one.