Andre Gray

“I've got to a point where I've done everything that I set out to do and more. I'm living my dream. It's just about now, finding that other level to go push for. That's what I've been doing and that's what I want to do.”

“I'm a private person. People just see me as the bad boy, and if that's how they want to perceive me, then so be it - but they don't know who I am.”

“I believe I can be a Premier League player.”

“When I was at Hinckley it was just a case of taking it one step at a time - try to get into the Conference, then League Two and so on.”

“I am a role model now, young people see what I am at present. People look up to me now I am playing for Burnley and it is frustrating that what happened in the past gets brought up to look like it is the present.”

“I've learned from my mistakes and wrongdoings.”

“I went to Zanzibar on holiday and there was a lot there about civil rights and there was a museum, where there are old slave chambers. It was horrible to go to and they've still got the chains there. It opens your eyes a lot.”

“I just want to keep my head down and do the right things on and off the pitch.”

“I didn't have time to worry about the great big scar on my face, I just had to be relieved I hadn't been stabbed in the eye or the neck. I had to accept what had happened and move on and football helped me to do that.”

“Us, as footballers, are in a very privileged position.”

“The main reason I got released from Shrewsbury in the first place was for what I was doing off the pitch.”

“If people want to see me as the bad boy because one of my friends has gone to jail, then that's what they're going to think, but they haven't a clue about my life and what I've had to deal with growing up and the things I've been around.”

“It's hard to prove your point to the public when they don't know who you are. Everyone is outside looking in, but I'm sure people that actually know me, know what I'm about.”

“In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.”

“Racism has been in football since football started, it's never going away, it's never got better. It's just noticed more because everything is on TV, everything is magnified.”

“I want to score 15-20 goals a season in the Premier League. I want to be up there doing that. I know that I can do that.”

“I know I can score goals, regardless of anything else that might be my weaknesses, I know I can score goals.”

“I'm not just gonna get a random rapper tattooed on me.”

“I don't think a lot of people understand the situations I've been involved in and the way I grew up. I took myself away from it and made something out of a bad situation.”

“I can't even count how many times I've been pulled over. I can't count how many times I've gone to a club and not got in, how many times a security guard has followed me round a shop. I can't count how many times that somebody has asked me if I'm a footballer because I've come out of a nice car.”