Demba Ba

“If I enjoy myself on the pitch, then I'm going to have a good performance.”

“I love playing football and being in teams that have the ball and play good football.”

“The thing I expect from myself, when I play, is to score, in every game. If I don't, then it happens. But when you start a game, if you are a striker, you need to score.”

“As sportspeople, we have a power we don't even know. If we get together and talk, things change. If we stand up, people stand up with us.”

“It doesn't matter what you have, as long as you're happy with the people you are with.”

“Chelsea is a club which should be in the Champions League every season, which should finish in the top four every season, should be in the title race.”

“For me, I am always hoping to play for the national team.”

“I know there are footballers who want to fight for justice, whether Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, any belief.”

“The most special goal of my career was the one that I scored against Cameroon in injury time to send Senegal into the Africa Cup of Nations back in the 2011-12 season. That was the most unforgettable moment of my career.”

“Being a Muslim is more important than me being a footballer. A good Muslim is a good person, so I try to be a good person. I just live the way I want to live.”

“It is very important you have strikers who can run and defend.”

“You have some days when it doesn't go for you but you have to keep believing in yourself.”

“I'd always loved English football.”

“When are we going to see the rest of the world stand up for Muslims?”

“My mum had the hardest work in the world, making sure her kids are following the right way, and she had a lot of kids.”

“The Black Lives Matter movement is stronger when non-black people step up for it.”

“I have never really liked defending, chasing people.”

“You never say, 'This white guy, that white guy.' But when it's a black guy, you have to say, 'This black guy.'”

“I was like Patrick Vieira. I was technically good, natural, big and strong, but I didn't like a tackle.”