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“As a striker you need to take chances.”
“Everything I do, I do for my mum and my family - that's what drives me.”
“That's the most important thing, improving myself in training, and improving in the things I don't do better, so improving in all aspects, in all areas, in training, to improve game by game and hopefully they will keep coming and hopefully we'll get to the top.”
“We didn't have a television at home. Even the people who did have televisions wouldn't have the right channels to show the games. So if you wanted to watch football you had to pay to watch the games at the local sports centre. You would get hundreds of people paying to watch, all at the same place.”
“I think nothing is enough in football.”
“I will help the team anyway I can.”
“It's just what I need to do as a football player, to come in and bring life whenever I'm starting, whenever I'm coming in.”
“It was hard when my mother left us. I said to myself: 'You must keep working hard for her.' She was a teacher, a big influence. She made me work harder. So when I'm not doing something right or when I'm not playing or working hard enough, I remember what she used to say to me. She gets me moving. She pushed me to work hard.”
“I was close to signing for FC Porto where I really wanted to go.”
“If your country wants you to play, you really want to go and play as well.”
“When I was growing up they didn't want me to do it because my mother was a teacher - they wanted me to go to school. But I love football and wanted to play - they wanted to stop me but couldn't. They wouldn't allow me to play out after school but I went out anyway. Maybe I lost a bit of focus on my studies.”
“I can play No. 9, 10, 7 and 11 - I can play different positions.”
“As a striker, I love scoring and when we're not, we're not that happy.”
“I love, love, love playing football. I was always this way, even though I was never able to watch the big clubs as a kid.”
“Wilf is a great passer of the ball. I know him and I played with him from the Under-17s team with Nigeria, so he's a very good passer.”
“Whenever you get a chance, you take it, so I just need to keep my head up, keep working hard every day, so if I get my chance, I'll take it.”
“You can call me Mr. VAR.”
“Everyone knows Pep and what he can do.”
“It's football - anything can happen.”
“I love a challenge so when people compare me and Rashford, it gives me more confidence and motivation. It also makes me work even harder.”