81 Quotes by Jerome Boateng

I am happy to be a German. I'm proud, or I wouldn't be here in the team.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

I have much to be grateful for at Bayern, and I feel super comfortable. I can't imagine being at another club.

You need bad times to become a better and strong player.

It would be a huge honour for me to wear the armband for Germany as the first black captain ever.

You meet somebody on a bus or something, and they say, 'Thank you for the World Cup; it was so good to see,' and stuff like this - it's funny.

The most important thing I learned during games is to be calmer, to try to smooth over other people's or my own mistakes, and not to tackle people unnecessarily. Patience was key for me.

Messi is so quick; he's so good. For me, he's the best player in the world.

It really should not matter which colour of skin a person has. I know where my roots are, and I know that I've been born and raised in Germany. I see myself as a German, and I like to show that.