Kelechi Iheanacho

Footballer

100 Quotes

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.

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

I can play in any position.

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

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

Everyone knows Pep and what he can do.

I will help the team anyway I can.

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.

It's football - anything can happen.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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