Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kelechi Iheanacho

When the ball falls to you, you have to put it in.

We are footballers, we can make mistakes and we can lose games.

Nigeria has a lot of Man City fans, and they're going to have more every time I go home.

I know that as a young player I need to work hard for the team, work extra in training and in the game as well so that they will see that you need more games and you need to play.

It's amazing when you go back home now, when you remember how you were before. You go back home and all those people are calling your name, shouting. I get mobbed by the kids. They want to see you, want to know you.

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.

I think nothing is enough in football.

Whenever I go back home to Nigeria now, I always bring a bag full of Manchester City shirts for the kids.

Everybody wants to play.

My Premier League debut was against Watford in 2015. I got a few minutes or so. It was truly heart-warming. So nice, being young and then scoring goals.

I'd played a few games at the Under-17 World Cup finals, and that's when I agreed a deal with City. In all honesty, I didn't know that much about the club at the time.

My mother loved her children, and she had always pushed me to keep working hard, even when it was football and not books.

I just have to keep my confidence and be strong.

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.

We want to win every game.

I support Barcelona because I watched the Spanish league.

When you play football in the Premier League, everybody is watching.

In my country, that's where I started playing. I was a No. 10.

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.

Anywhere I can fit in, I will play.

Guardiola is a good manager, everyone knows that.

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.

I didn't really believe that I could play at City because they had so many incredible players.

When I was 14, I started playing for Taye Academy in the city of Owerri, and then my whole life became football. I dreamed of playing for certain clubs, or going places I'd never been before, but I just kept my ambitions to myself because I never really expected that I could get to these places.

You see, when I was young, I loved playing football. But where I grew up in southern Nigeria, it was kind of like a ghetto. It was a tough place to be a kid. You had to work very hard to make a living there, and my family did not have the extra funds to buy a real ball.

It doesn't matter where you find yourself, you have to focus and concentrate.

It doesn't matter where you find yourself, you have to focus and concentrate and work for the team.

I would have gone anywhere for football.

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'm happy and I'm confident, even if I don't score.

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'm happy being at City. I wanted to go to Porto before but my father said that coming here we would have a great future. It was the right decision.

There's nothing to enjoy about pre-season, you just have to work hard.

As a striker you need to take chances.

It's football - anything can happen.

It's good to be involved as well as everyone to be involved in everything to help your team work hard when you work hard you get a good result.

Everything I do, I do for my mum and my family - that's what drives me.

City are such a big team with so many fantastic players, I didn't believe I'd have a future here.

Every team that's promoted to the Premier League wants to stay, they don't want to go back.

I was close to signing for FC Porto where I really wanted to go.

I will try to do my best in training and in games if I'm introduced.

Hopefully, I will get more - more goals and more hat-tricks.

It is always good to be involved in a good sport, a great team.

I don't know why, but football is my passion.

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.

It's war for 90 minutes in the Manchester Derby. You cannot give anything less than 100 percent concentration.

On my part, any time I am in I need to give 100 per cent because everyone is important in the team.

I can play as a striker or I can play as a No 10. I can even play on the wing as well.

As a striker, I love scoring and when we're not, we're not that happy.

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.

It's always good to score.

It happens in football, sometimes you can face trying times or sometimes you can play.

It's my job to show to the manager that I deserve to play in the squad and I deserve that chance.

I work on my finishing every day in training.

Players need to be strong when they have injuries.

There is always a lot of competition at a big club like Manchester City, so I need to keep working hard, having patience and hoping for the best.

I can play No. 9, 10, 7 and 11 - I can play different positions.

I keep learning and improving and that will help me in the future.

That is a football game, you don't know what is going to happen when you play.

No one wants to sit on the bench.