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“Sport is dirty if you want to win, but I am not a dirty player.”
“There are a lot of people who don't trust in me, so I just try to make them wrong.”
“I'm always looking forward, and I try to continue to push myself and to do the best that I can.”
“Of course a striker wants to score as much as possible. It's nice scoring goals. Goals are like an addiction: when you score, you want to keep doing more and more.”
“I don't even like to lose when I'm playing video games with my brother, and when I do lose, I get really mad.”
“I want to show everybody that I can play in the best league in the world and score goals.”
“The Serbian people are very kind. Sometimes life is ruthless, and you have to show character. But come to Serbia and see how friendly everyone is; then you'll change your mind.”
“I've been happy from the start at Newcastle. It has been my favourite club ever since I was small boy in Serbia.”
“That is my style of play, my strength: hold up, playing with my back to goal.”
“My father tells me I would have been a criminal or a kick-boxer. But fatherhood has changed me - a lot.”
“I could have gone down a very different path, but my parents would not let me give up football.”
“I'm a typical No 9: always in the box, strong, good in the air.”
“It was really hard in Newcastle. It was one city, one club. Everybody there was really crazy about Newcastle.”
“When I play football, I try to win the game. That is part of me. That is who I am.”
“Of course defenders will try to provoke me - that is their job.”
“If you ask any player, they will always say the same. They play to win.”
“I try to give everything I have, both in training and the games.”
“Competition is good.”
“That's the Serbian way. That's the way we approach things, especially in sport. We are a small country, but if we want something, we will fight for it. It's maybe part of the history of the country; it's just our mentality. We are small but strong.”
“Scoring will do a lot for my confidence.”