El Shaarawy on Ibra: "To tell you the truth, it was never easy playing with Ibrahimovic. You have to know how to handle him. Really, what you needed to do was just pass him the ball, or else he'd scream at us, or just mess with us after..
El Shaarawy on Gattuso: "Gattuso on the other hand, hated my eyebrows. The first time he saw that I trimmed them, he became furious and told me that all I needed to think about was playing and getting better at football. Despite this, I'll miss him very much. Also when I first got to Milanello, they told me I needed to shave my hair, but one Milan player came to my defense and said, 'If Hamsik, Neymar & Cisse have that hair, let him have it too' and so it died down after that. It has been hard for me to keep my feet grounded this last year, and fortunately I have my father who has helped me."
El Shaarawy on his love life: "The second I got to Serie A, my erotic life multiplied by ten. However, I use facebook to pick up all my women. You find so much stuff on the Internet nowadays."