Top 40 Oliver Burke Quotes

When I was at Leipzig, I was coming on for the last 10 or 20 minutes, and the game has kind of gone then. You don’t get a feel for how you are as a player.

I would be kicking a ball about with my friends and they’d ask why I was wearing the Celtic kit.

I feel more mature as a player and I have the opportunity to show why they were all talking about me a potentially good player a few years ago.

Whoever is in place to step forward and play that striker role has to be ready and be prepared to do the work because it is obviously a very tough job up top on your own. You have to put a shift in.

I wouldn’t say I’m the chunky lad who just goes barge, barge, barge, but being strong is an advantage.

People used to say that I thought I was Gareth Bale, and that’s not the case at all. I’m nowhere near that level. The guy has won so much – Leagues, Champions Leagues, scoring worldies in finals.

It’s very disappointing if a player pulls out of a squad when he’s not injured and is maybe prioritising his club.

I’ve experienced different opportunities and countries, and it’s been fun but I want to be settled and find a club where I’m happy and enjoying my football. I got sick of the whole moving around thing.

I don’t like to put much pressure on myself but yeah that is my sort of football: get the ball, run with it, use my pace, create opportunities, cross.

I’m enjoying myself at Celtic, I really like it here. I think it’s a great club with great team-mates who have made me feel welcome.

I just love football and I don’t care who for, just as long as I’m playing and I’m happy.

I haven’t been injured at all. It’s just one of those things which does happen in football.

Little things like that when you go to another country is so welcoming. You meet someone, they’re so jolly, they speak the language, it really helps.

I’m always proud to pull on the shirt and I always will be, whether it’s been for the senior team or the Under-21s.

It was an amazing experience for me to play at Celtic Park in a big European game. It’s a privilege to be a Celtic player, with massive crowds and great fans.

When I’m playing football I’m switched off to everything else – it frees my mind.

At West Brom I felt very left out, not part of the team.

Being in a new country, you learn a lot about yourself.

A player who isn’t playing football isn’t ready for the international team.

Your motivation gets sucked away when you know that whatever you do your name won’t be on the team sheet.

My family were always there for me – they all had my back – and made me feel better to keep pushing. It made me think of all the hard graft I did as a kid with them taking me to training after work.

To be honest I didn’t have a clue that I was the most expensive Scottish player. It’s not something that comes into my head.

I have to be in the right positions and create the right runs as much as I can.

When you have a bit of a down period and everything isn’t going so well, you stay humble and you just want to prove everybody wrong, and I hope I can do that.

I speak to people who have coached me down the years who tell me to look at how far I’ve come and to just keep going, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

Someone on the Scottish side of the family got me one and I never took it off. I would be down the country park playing in a Celtic strip in England.

Obviously winning trophies is massive in football, no matter where you are.

The situation at West Brom is very difficult for me because I’ve been there for so long but I’ve not played that many games for them.

All I want to do is play. I love the game. I want to show everyone what I can do.

I know I like to get in the zone, maybe stick on my headphones and listen to music. It helps me concentrate and go over what we’ve talked about in the team meetings, so I can visualise what’s ahead.

Every game you play, you want to go in and give everything you have got, prove a point and make sure you are in the manager’s thoughts for the next camp. If you aren’t playing, it is difficult.

My preference would be to play as a right winger, but I can also play as a striker.

It is unfortunate I haven’t been able to get the game time I wanted at West Brom but I need to stay focused, progress, and try not to think about it too much.

You don’t feel wanted by a club when you sign for them for however much and all of a sudden you’re there for two training sessions and they’ve just bought someone for double the amount.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

Alaves were very keen on me and I was very keen for another adventure. It doesn’t really faze me moving to another country.

I had the Celtic kit when I was young, the full kit as well. This has always been the club I’ve thought about.

I think I’m just competitive and I demand a lot from myself. So I get frustrated if something hasn’t come off for me or if a game is going against it. I like to think I channel it in the right way and do my best for the team.

I have never been to Celtic Park. That’s what I’m really excited to do. I have heard the fans are amazing so I’m dying to see that.

Game-time is the most important thing for me. When you’re playing week in, week out you have the confidence to show what you’re capable of.