Kelechi Iheanacho Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

No one wants to sit on the bench.

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

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

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.

Anywhere I can fit in, I will play.

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

I can play in any position.

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

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.

I think nothing is enough in football.

I loved football when I was small.

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

As a striker you need to take chances.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I just have to keep my confidence and be strong.

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

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.

Everything I do, I do for my mum and my family – that’s what drives me.

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

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

Players need to be strong when they have injuries.

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.

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.

Everyone knows Pep and what he can do.

It’s football – anything can happen.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 would have gone anywhere for football.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I work on my finishing every day in training.

You can call me Mr. VAR.