Top 33 Raheem Sterling Quotes

I am always analysing myself; I am always critical of myself and always trying to improve.

My mum was working as a cleaner at some hotels to make extra money so she could pay for her degree. I’ll never forget waking up at five in the morning before school and helping her clean the toilets at the hotel in Stonebridge.

If you grew up the same way I grew up, don’t listen to what certain tabloids want to tell you. They just want to steal your joy. They just want to pull you down.

My mum thinks she knows her football. She’ll certainly tell me when I’m not doing something right. At other times, she’ll say I’m not listening to her. There’s been a few clashes with her.

Every player wants to win the World Cup – every country wants to win the World Cup – so anything less than that is not really a bonus. Of course you can take positives out of everything, but you won’t be entirely happy if you don’t win it.

I grew up five minutes from the stadium and watched it being built. I’d play football right outside and look up at this huge stadium with all the cranes and building work and think, ‘One day, when it’s finished, I need to be playing in here.’

I’m a person, when something’s not going right, I’m looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

I just don’t like losing, I don’t like losing, full stop. Even if it’s at FIFA.

Growing up, you watch players like Ronaldinho playing in World Cups, doing the business, and you idolise these people.

Something good happens or something bad, I think, ‘What can I do better? What didn’t I do this year?’

When I used to dribble, I’d be on the wing, and I’d control it with the outside of my foot – it slows the ball down.

For a few years, we lived with our grandmother in Kingston, and I remember watching the other kids with their mums and just feeling really jealous. I didn’t fully understand what my mum was doing for us. I just knew that she was gone. My grandma was amazing, but everybody wants their mum at that age.

Thank God I had football. I remember when it used to rain, all the kids would run outside and play football in the puddles, just splashing around, having the best time.

Everyone’s dream, growing up, is seeing themselves in an away kit somewhere in a sunny country. But, in reality, I’m happy to be playing for Liverpool and trying to win trophies.

As a young boy – I was 20-21, around that age – I didn’t think I was being treated right. It can affect anyone, not just me. It was about how I bounced back, how I had to think and sit down and try to move on. Not let that defeat me.

If you want your country to do well as everyone says, bring a positive light to it.

I’m still short now, but when I was 14, I was like a pencil. You had to be aggressive and hold your own.

A better goals-to-game ratio is the aim for me now. If you score goals, you will get people talking about you.

If you’ve got a fast and strong defender, on the left, I feel like I can give him trouble going down the line, coming inside, or making runs in behind.

Sometimes you can get sloppy and control the ball right at your feet, and that gives the defenders a chance.

I don’t want to be the one that says Liverpool can go on and win the league. But there’s a real belief and togetherness in the squad; we’re all working for each other. We all know what the dream is at the end of it.

I’ve got a massive opportunity here with a great bunch of players to represent England at a World Cup; that’s my biggest focus now.

I had a rough year, my first year at Man City, a big club for a big transfer fee. There was a lot of talk, a lot of pressure, and I didn’t think I was being spoken about in a fair manner.

It’s always an honor to put on an England shirt, but this one is different – it makes you really feel fast; plus, it’s light and fits nicely.

When I got the ball in the reserves, within two touches I would turn and look to attack my opponent, whereas in the first team, I was trying for the safer option. I needed to go back to basics. I needed to get defenders on the back foot again.

Performing for my dad does drive me on. Especially in big games, massive games.

I try to get better in every aspect of my life, not just on the football field. I am competitive, and I just want to always get better.

Obviously, it’s disappointing when you put on a shirt and get negative feedback, but at the same time, it’s what the fans want to see; they want to see you perform well.

I’m trying to make the box, trying to be more ruthless, more clinical, and trying to decide games.

Goals can help lift me to be one of the best two or three in the world, most definitely. You score the goal that wins the football match five, six, seven times a season: you are one of the best in the world. And that’s what I need to do. I need to keep being consistent.

Footballers need to be aware kids look up to them.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and score more, and it will be a matter of time. Once you get back into that rhythm, you will start getting balls that drop to you in positions where it wasn’t before. I do have that feeling that it is going to come soon.

Some things that started in pre-season and then, you know what, the season gets started, you kind of forget about it and then move on to football, and it’s strictly football until the season finishes.