Words matter. These are the best Patrick Bamford Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We have to try to be positive now and look to the future and think positive things: then positive things will happen.
Playing on the right isn’t a role I prefer, but sometimes you’ve got to do your job for the team.
The thought of playing in Spain did whet my appetite – playing in a new country and everything that comes with it.
We’ve actually got a Chelsea loan WhatsApp group. The loan department set it up. Sometimes it drains your battery when everyone is messaging each other.
Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around 23 or 24.
After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker’s job, but we’ll see about that. I’d love to do that, present ‘Match of the Day.’
I had a chat with my dad and decided that sometimes you’ve just got to look like you’re fighting. So I started putting myself about a bit more, showing a bit more aggression in training.
We have a psychologist at Chelsea who goes around seeing the loan players. He said every top, top player has a dark side. So someone like Diego Costa sometimes oversteps the mark. But you can see he plays on the edge. He said I had to develop that. It’s not natural for me to be like that.
I started at Nottingham Forest cleaning toilets and scrubbing the shower floors.
I would tell most youngsters to play every week if they can.
It will be a tough task to break into the first team at Chelsea.
In my head, if I don’t get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.
If you play for managers like Karl Robinson, it’s about your development, but there are times when you have to stick up for yourself and let defenders know you are around when nobody is looking.
Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.
If you are doing well, then your name is always bandied about.
When I decided to move to Chelsea, I got a bit of stick at the time, but I didn’t move just because of the money or just because it was a big club. I moved there because I wanted to play for them.
I want to play for Chelsea. I hope I do get that chance, and I think I can compete.
If I started something, I had to finish. Like with violin. I started when I was seven only because my best mate wanted to. I hated it and wanted to quit, but Dad made me continue, and I got to grade seven. My parents said I had to know the value of stuff and work for stuff.
Relegation hurts, of course. It’s one of the things that you will keep forever. But you have to move on as soon as you can.
Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.
There’s a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people’s livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.
I never really felt pushed at school or that I was struggling; it came naturally.
If you don’t play well, people don’t watch the game, but if you have scored, your name flashes up; it doesn’t matter how you’ve played. So as a striker, that is what I’ve got to try to do – make sure I score – and if you’re doing that, you’re also helping the team.
I don’t have any reason not to be at Chelsea. It is my dream to put on that blue shirt and play for them eventually.
I’ve really enjoyed my time at Palace. The lads were brilliant; the gaffer and training were great.
I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level.
The fans are entitled to voice their opinion.
My parents never let me have everything.
I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.
Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.
