Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kelechi Iheanacho - Page 2

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.

If your country wants you to play, you really want to go and play as well.

I think every year that comes, comes with different games, different kinds of players, different coaches and different philosophies, I know that.

When you work hard, you get great rewards after that.

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.

You need to press high, help your teammates by getting back - and, of course, score goals.

It's good when as a young player you're introduced to a top team like Manchester City and you need to do well.

When I played for the Under-13s, then Nigerian Football Federation president Sani Lulu said we would be playing at the 2018 World Cup.

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.

I've been working really hard and I'm really grateful to God.

It's always a good feeling to get a goal in the team.

I will help the team anyway I can.

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.

I will just keep working hard and keep believing in myself.

It would be a dream come true for me to go to the Bernabeu.

I think, in every footballer's life there are all sorts of ups and downs.

I've scored four goals in a game many times, but only in the streets with my friends.

I think the FA Cup has great memories and I think there have been Nigerian legends that have played in it as well, like Jay-Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu. They've played in it, so it's a great thing to play in the FA Cup.

I don't know anyone who is playing who doesn't want to keep improving and be at the top level.

Everyone knows Pep and what he can do.

If I'm in a good position to score then I'm happy to put the ball in the back of the net, but if I'm not, and I see someone in a better position, I'll give it to him.

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.

Pep is a great manager who has coached some big teams in Europe and won a lot of trophies.

I think I'm improving a lot but I really need to work harder in training and in games to show my qualities.

You can call me Mr. VAR.

I loved football when I was small.

We have to work as a team, play as a team. This is how you win matches.

European football is the same as any other football.

Football is a team sport and I'd rather place the team above my personal desires.

They give us courage, but you can't play for the gallery, you have to play for your team-mates.

I think it's a great competition and it's a great thing to be scoring in the FA Cup.

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.

My father was a trader and my mum was a teacher but she was laid to rest when I was 14, which was really hard for all of us.

I don't know if I'll end up being a top player or not. But I'll be working hard to achieve that and I wouldn't complain if it happened. I just have to keep going and see where it takes me.

You're not gonna die for putting in hard work.

I can play in any position.

I loved playing football with my brothers. I would go to school as well, but I loved football, so I played it a lot when I was a kid.

Work for the team, work hard and when the ball falls to you you have to put it in.

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.

I know I have the quality to prove myself any time I am given the chance.