Words matter. These are the best Cameroon Quotes from famous people such as Joakim Noah, Patrick Cox, Elayne Boosler, Nicholas Kristof, Clarence Seedorf, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.
I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.
I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, ‘Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs, or six cats, or will let me make a difference to the one woman saving chimps in Cameroon.’
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn’t operate in this region. It’s difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
Every player needs to be happy and proud to play for Cameroon.
I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese document that lists it as being loaded on to slave ships bound for Africa.
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
Cameroon is a football country – children are born playing football.
Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It’s football alone that that unites us, it’s football alone that brings us good things – football is the window into our country – so we don’t mess around with it.
Moving from Cameroon to Texas, that was a change. Learning English, the culture, everything was different so I had to adjust.
I had this DVD that my coach in Cameroon had mailed to me when I first came to America. It was an hour-long tape of Hakeem Olajuwon and some other legendary big men. I probably watched that DVD every single day for three years.
We try to bring in the best players for Cameroon: not just best in terms of talent but those who are motivated and who know what it means to play for this nation.
Cameroon is stronger because it’s a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon’s players aren’t necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.
I try to represent Africa and Cameroon as well as I can.
In Cameroon, kids have many problems. They think everything is lost before they are born. It seems like they are not allowed to dream. They are not allowed to be ambitious. They just accept being the victim of their life.
I’m from Cameroon, Central Africa.
Like many of us in the England squad, I wasn’t even born when the men’s team played Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup, so I couldn’t tell you much about that game.
I’ve always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.
I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I’ve lived more in Europe than Africa.
