Ashley Barnes

“I just want to continue playing at the highest level possible, and hopefully that is with Burnley.”

“I can't remember exactly how it came about, but my nan, who lives in Bath, is Austrian - which makes me eligible to play for them.”

“I don't take no prisoners, even in training. I do like to wind up the big teams, and sometimes they fall for it, sometimes not.”

“If you're at an academy you don't know anything else other than having everything at your feet. Having to work hard to make it, and to stay in football, is tough. I appreciate everything that has happened to me.”

“I know what winning the League means.”

“I wouldn't care if I didn't score all season and we got promoted at the end of the day.”

“I've worked hard to reach the Premier League and I don't want the journey to end.”

“I've come a long way and everything has fallen into place for me luckily enough.”

“I am confident in my own ability and I know I can put it in the back of the net.”

“I have worked so hard because I have not come up the nicest way. I've come up the Jamie Vardy way, scraping up from non-League.”

“If anyone ever asked my advice I'd say, 'go back to the roots and make your way up that way, rather than struggling at an academy.'”

“It's fantastic to get promoted and a brilliant thing to have on your CV.”

“There are a lot of people out there now playing non-League that are good enough to be in the Football League.”

“I don't want to think about the bad things, that's not me.”

“Do I feel Austrian? I'm not sure. Let's see, but what will be will be.”

“Everyone sees I am a strong, physical kind of guy and I won't come away from that.”

“Make no mistake about it. We're not there to draw, we're there to win.”

“We need to stand by each other, grab your mate next to you and stick together.”

“I haven't forgotten what it was like to share lifts to away games and washing your own kit. Those things will always stay with me, they help to keep me grounded. I still go back and watch old friends play when I can. That will never change, it's part of who I am and where I came from.”

“You just want to show what you're capable of and hopefully I have done that and shown how good I am.”