A biography for Patrick Bamfordhasn’t been written yet.
“No one wants to sit on the bench and not play.”
“I think for every young player of my age, they have to go out on loan. I know there's an U21 league and the Europa League for the youth teams, but it's not the same as playing men's football, when there's a lot more riding on it.”
“As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that's good.”
“I've always believed that when I play up front and once I've scored, then I keep scoring.”
“It's about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football.”
“At a club like Chelsea, they have the money to buy world class strikers like Diego Costa, and there's also that pressure to win trophies. I just have to stick with it, be patient, and hopefully my rewards will come.”
“The thought of playing in Spain did whet my appetite - playing in a new country and everything that comes with it.”
“When I decided to move to Chelsea, I got a bit of stick at the time, but I didn't move just because of the money or just because it was a big club. I moved there because I wanted to play for them.”
“There's a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people's livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.”
“I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.”
“I got a phone call from David Moyes: he was interested in me going out to Real Sociedad, and I was quite keen on the idea if I didn't get the Premier League club that I wanted. Going abroad appealed to me.”
“We have a psychologist at Chelsea who goes around seeing the loan players. He said every top, top player has a dark side. So someone like Diego Costa sometimes oversteps the mark. But you can see he plays on the edge. He said I had to develop that. It's not natural for me to be like that.”
“If I started something, I had to finish. Like with violin. I started when I was seven only because my best mate wanted to. I hated it and wanted to quit, but Dad made me continue, and I got to grade seven. My parents said I had to know the value of stuff and work for stuff.”
“If you are doing well, then your name is always bandied about.”
“I went home every night wondering how to get in the Burnley team. It was, 'You've been brought up nicely, had everything handed to you.' Is that what people think just because I went to private school and played instruments?”
“Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.”
“I don't have any reason not to be at Chelsea. It is my dream to put on that blue shirt and play for them eventually.”
“Obviously, when I signed for Middlesbrough, I was hoping that we would stay up and that I'd be a big player for them in the Premier League.”
“After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker's job, but we'll see about that. I'd love to do that, present 'Match of the Day.'”
“I had a chat with my dad and decided that sometimes you've just got to look like you're fighting. So I started putting myself about a bit more, showing a bit more aggression in training.”