Top 50 Kelechi Iheanacho Quotes

We have to work as a team, play as a team. This is how you win matches.

When I was 14, I started playing for Taye Academy in the city of Owerri, and then my whole life became football. I dreamed of playing for certain clubs, or going places I’d never been before, but I just kept my ambitions to myself because I never really expected that I could get to these places.

It’s football – anything can happen.

I love, love, love playing football. I was always this way, even though I was never able to watch the big clubs as a kid.

Every team that’s promoted to the Premier League wants to stay, they don’t want to go back.

I don’t know if I’ll end up being a top player or not. But I’ll be working hard to achieve that and I wouldn’t complain if it happened. I just have to keep going and see where it takes me.

I think the FA Cup has great memories and I think there have been Nigerian legends that have played in it as well, like Jay-Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu. They’ve played in it, so it’s a great thing to play in the FA Cup.

It happens in football, sometimes you can face trying times or sometimes you can play.

Everyone knows Pep and what he can do.

I keep learning and improving and that will help me in the future.

I think I’m improving a lot but I really need to work harder in training and in games to show my qualities.

Football is a team sport and I’d rather place the team above my personal desires.

It’s war for 90 minutes in the Manchester Derby. You cannot give anything less than 100 percent concentration.

As a striker, I love scoring and when we’re not, we’re not that happy.

You see, when I was young, I loved playing football. But where I grew up in southern Nigeria, it was kind of like a ghetto. It was a tough place to be a kid. You had to work very hard to make a living there, and my family did not have the extra funds to buy a real ball.

The viewing centre was a place you go to watch football in Nigeria but you have to pay to watch football at a viewing centre, so if you don’t have the means or the money to pay, you can’t watch.

I can play in any position.

I’m happy being at City. I wanted to go to Porto before but my father said that coming here we would have a great future. It was the right decision.

On my part, any time I am in I need to give 100 per cent because everyone is important in the team.

You’re not gonna die for putting in hard work.

I don’t know anyone who is playing who doesn’t want to keep improving and be at the top level.

It doesn’t matter where you find yourself, you have to focus and concentrate and work for the team.

I just have to keep my confidence and be strong.

Everybody wants to play.

When I arrived in Manchester for the first time, it took me five seconds to realize that it was a very different place than where I come from. It is cold, yes, but people also do things very differently than we do in Nigeria. The culture was different, and everything looked different.

Hopefully, I will get more – more goals and more hat-tricks.

It would be a dream come true for me to go to the Bernabeu.

Whenever you get a chance, you take it, so I just need to keep my head up, keep working hard every day, so if I get my chance, I’ll take it.

When I was growing up I don’t have the chance to watch a lot of football, because I can’t afford to watch football.

It’s my job to show to the manager that I deserve to play in the squad and I deserve that chance.

I can play No. 9, 10, 7 and 11 – I can play different positions.

As a striker you need to take chances.

There is always a lot of competition at a big club like Manchester City, so I need to keep working hard, having patience and hoping for the best.

Pep is a great manager who has coached some big teams in Europe and won a lot of trophies.

City are such a big team with so many fantastic players, I didn’t believe I’d have a future here.

You can call me Mr. VAR.

I’ve been working really hard and I’m really grateful to God.

I think it’s a great competition and it’s a great thing to be scoring in the FA Cup.

We want to win every game.

There’s nothing to enjoy about pre-season, you just have to work hard.

I’d played a few games at the Under-17 World Cup finals, and that’s when I agreed a deal with City. In all honesty, I didn’t know that much about the club at the time.

I will just keep working hard and keep believing in myself.

I didn’t really believe that I could play at City because they had so many incredible players.

It’s amazing when you go back home now, when you remember how you were before. You go back home and all those people are calling your name, shouting. I get mobbed by the kids. They want to see you, want to know you.

Wilfried is a very good striker who is strong and intelligent – he talks to me all the time and advises me. We sit together in the dressing room and he’s like a big brother to me.

That’s the most important thing, improving myself in training, and improving in the things I don’t do better, so improving in all aspects, in all areas, in training, to improve game by game and hopefully they will keep coming and hopefully we’ll get to the top.

It’s always good to score.

When you work hard, you get great rewards after that.

I think, in every footballer’s life there are all sorts of ups and downs.

Players need to be strong when they have injuries.