Top 30 Michael Essien Quotes

I’ve been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

As a young boy, all we used to watch was the Premier League at that time. I know the FA cup is quite important. It’s as important as the Premier League in England. And I had a chance to win it over our biggest rival, and it was also in the new Wembley. It was a great moment.

I like watching tennis and basketball, but it’s not every day you can watch it on TV. I don’t play them, though.

Teams struggle when they come to Stamford Bridge and, if we score one or two, everything seems to open up for us. We need to work hard to get into that position in the first place, but you can see what happens once we are ahead.

I’ve played at the highest level, so I’m just looking forward to enjoying the football, so anywhere there is interest, then yeah. I will consider it.

When I’m about to play in a big match, I take things easy.

Poverty is everywhere, but in Africa, there is more.

I’m just a normal person out there enjoying his football. If there’s anything I can do to make a better life for the kids in Ghana, I will do it.

I don’t think I’ve still got things to show Carlo Ancelotti. He has seen me play a lot, even before he was our manager, and he knows what I can do.

I had an amazing time at Chelsea. I can’t pinpoint to a specific event, but the best moment was the honour of signing for Chelsea because I was proud to be at such a club.

Everything is good at Cobham. I really enjoy it here. I always have a bit of treatment in the morning, and then I go training. It’s good.

I had a fantastic career at Chelsea. I was here for almost nine years, and it was great. I have nothing negative to say at all. It was all positive.

When I was growing up, I always liked playing football, and my mum always took me to football games. I owe her a lot. She was my pillar. She was the biggest influence on me.

Indonesia was good – and crazy, too! It was a great experience to play there. I enjoyed the football. It wasn’t easy. It’s very hot.

Ghanaians and English people enjoy football the same.

Highs have to be all the trophies I won with Chelsea over the 8-9 years I was with them there. We had a good group, and we were winners from the goal keeper right throughout the team. These are the highs you never forget as a player.

I always spend my summer in Ghana. I don’t go anywhere else.

As a kid, I always wanted to play in Europe.

I’m a man of few words. I don’t really like talking.

I loved playing at Anfield, but it could be quite intimidating because you come out of the tunnel and see their fans singing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, and it gives you goosebumps.

I sleep 14 hours a day. That helps me get the energy you see on the pitch.

I’m not a difficult person. I just want to enjoy my football until I hang up my boots.

I still feel Ghanaian, but my mentality is more European.

I had always said I will like to play for Milan at some stage in my career, so when the opportunity came up, I grabbed it with both hands.

I like Singapore; it is very clean. People speak English and are warm.

As a child, I always wanted to come to the Premier League, so when I made the move, I was very happy. Chelsea were on the up – they were doing really good – so I was very excited, and in the end, everything went well here for me.

I’m the kind of person who likes to be lonely. I got my head down and focused on getting fit.

I want to give back to my community, little things I think they need. I went there to open a borehole and a public lavatory and give them a book about myself that we wrote with ‘Right to Play.’

Milan is good, and I am settling in nicely, which is important. Everyone is friendly at the club and are looking after me well, so I can’t complain.

Within weeks of the Ebola hoax dying down, the guys at Health Africa International approached my friends George Weah, Mahamadou Diarra, and I to be part of the initiative in using various forms of communication to promote a Ebola prevention education programme.