Raheem Sterling

“I just want to be seen as a kid who loves to play football and to do the best for the team.”

“The fans get a bit frustrated with me because I'm not signing straight away. They can get on your back a little bit, but this is football, and you have to accept these things.”

“When it rains, nobody hides inside. You just go out and enjoy it. The other thing I remember is begging my grandmother for money to go and get a grapenut ice cream.”

“If you want your country to do well as everyone says, bring a positive light to it.”

“I don't talk about how many cars I'm going to drive, how many houses I've got. I just purely want to be the best I can be.”

“I'm trying to make the box, trying to be more ruthless, more clinical, and trying to decide games.”

“I grew up five minutes from the stadium and watched it being built. I'd play football right outside and look up at this huge stadium with all the cranes and building work and think, 'One day, when it's finished, I need to be playing in here.'”

“Sometimes you can get sloppy and control the ball right at your feet, and that gives the defenders a chance.”

“I put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and score more, and it will be a matter of time. Once you get back into that rhythm, you will start getting balls that drop to you in positions where it wasn't before. I do have that feeling that it is going to come soon.”

“For a few years, we lived with our grandmother in Kingston, and I remember watching the other kids with their mums and just feeling really jealous. I didn't fully understand what my mum was doing for us. I just knew that she was gone. My grandma was amazing, but everybody wants their mum at that age.”

“A few years ago, I would let it get to me. But now, as long as my mum and my sister and my kids don't have any stress, I'm good.”

“My mum was working as a cleaner at some hotels to make extra money so she could pay for her degree. I'll never forget waking up at five in the morning before school and helping her clean the toilets at the hotel in Stonebridge.”

“I just don't like losing, I don't like losing, full stop. Even if it's at FIFA.”

“Forget what everybody says. I know what I want to do and what I need to improve on. Nobody needs to tell me.”

“Goals can help lift me to be one of the best two or three in the world, most definitely. You score the goal that wins the football match five, six, seven times a season: you are one of the best in the world. And that's what I need to do. I need to keep being consistent.”

“I was looking at the sights, thinking, 'I used to play there a couple of years back, and now I'm on the coach with the England team.'”

“Everyone's dream, growing up, is seeing themselves in an away kit somewhere in a sunny country. But, in reality, I'm happy to be playing for Liverpool and trying to win trophies.”

“I would never want the fans to think bad of me, to think I just want as much money for myself.”

“Thank God I had football. I remember when it used to rain, all the kids would run outside and play football in the puddles, just splashing around, having the best time.”

“If you've got a fast and strong defender, on the left, I feel like I can give him trouble going down the line, coming inside, or making runs in behind.”