A biography for Kelechi Iheanachohasn’t been written yet.
“It's war for 90 minutes in the Manchester Derby. You cannot give anything less than 100 percent concentration.”
“That is a football game, you don't know what is going to happen when you play.”
“In my country, that's where I started playing. I was a No. 10.”
“It doesn't matter where you find yourself, you have to focus and concentrate and work for the team.”
“When I was growing up I don't have the chance to watch a lot of football, because I can't afford to watch football.”
“Whenever I go back home to Nigeria now, I always bring a bag full of Manchester City shirts for the kids.”
“I will try to do my best in training and in games if I'm introduced.”
“Players need to be strong when they have injuries.”
“I know I have the quality to prove myself any time I am given the chance.”
“When the ball falls to you, you have to put it in.”
“When you are not playing, you need to train harder. You need to keep faith. And when you come into the team, you have to do exactly what your team-mates are doing to help the team achieve something.”
“I keep learning and improving and that will help me in the future.”
“Wilfried is a very good striker who is strong and intelligent - he talks to me all the time and advises me. We sit together in the dressing room and he's like a big brother to me.”
“The viewing centre was a place you go to watch football in Nigeria but you have to pay to watch football at a viewing centre, so if you don't have the means or the money to pay, you can't watch.”
“When I arrived in Manchester for the first time, it took me five seconds to realize that it was a very different place than where I come from. It is cold, yes, but people also do things very differently than we do in Nigeria. The culture was different, and everything looked different.”
“It is ironic my father is now my biggest fan. I got beat up by him whenever I stepped out to play football! I was always on the receiving end of my father's belt or whatever else he could find. Sometimes I laugh, but I guess it's been written by God that my life would take such a route. He was only looking out for me.”
“Work for the team, work hard and when the ball falls to you you have to put it in.”