Top 60 Demba Ba Quotes

I’ve played football since I was seven – but loved basketball. Cire, who is one of six brothers, always played in the top two divisions in France. At the age of 15, I started having football trials. And, when I compared myself to other players, I thought, ‘why them and not me?’

I just want to have good performances and score goals – that’s what makes me happy.

There are over 1.5 billion Muslims throughout the world, starting from Mecca in the desert from one person. What made them successful? It’s because they had guidelines that they followed.

I was always excited by English football.

Arsenal are one of those teams who makes you dream.

Something which is easy for me to give is money. I feel detached from it. I look after myself and my family but I won’t forget people who struggle. My father lives in Senegal. They are from the smaller villages and know how to distribute money to people who need it.

I’d always loved English football.

My mum had the hardest work in the world, making sure her kids are following the right way, and she had a lot of kids.

The more you watch yourself play, the more mistakes you put right.

I won’t let myself be pushed around.

The only power I have, in reality, is to keep producing good performances.

I was like Patrick Vieira. I was technically good, natural, big and strong, but I didn’t like a tackle.

I do not have to whine about missing the chance to play in a World Cup.

English people have a great sense of humour.

I have never doubted that I would succeed from the moment I first began playing football.

Sometimes when you come in a team where there are a lot of big names – how can I say this? – the name plays more than the statistics.

I love syrup. Strawberry syrup.

I’m not a Steven Gerrard supporter.

As soon as I step on the pitch in football my ambition is to get those three points.

You have some days when it doesn’t go for you but you have to keep believing in yourself.

Eden Hazard is one of my close friends and Branislav Ivanovic I like.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

It’s important for a player to win a trophy.

It is very important you have strikers who can run and defend.

I try to be strong mentally.

The thing I expect from myself, when I play, is to score, in every game. If I don’t, then it happens. But when you start a game, if you are a striker, you need to score.

I have faith in my ability to score, and also create goals for others too.

Rennes wanted me at one point, but in France they have a problem – they don’t like taking risks. But if you don’t take risks, you don’t get anywhere. You pass by the periphery of many things, like life and football.

The Black Lives Matter movement is stronger when non-black people step up for it.

I have never really liked defending, chasing people.

You never say, ‘This white guy, that white guy.’ But when it’s a black guy, you have to say, ‘This black guy.’

When the club who won the Champions League wants you, the decision is very easy.

The most special goal of my career was the one that I scored against Cameroon in injury time to send Senegal into the Africa Cup of Nations back in the 2011-12 season. That was the most unforgettable moment of my career.

It’s really important to score for a new club early on; when you come in and score right away you feel much better.

Being a Muslim is more important than me being a footballer. A good Muslim is a good person, so I try to be a good person. I just live the way I want to live.

I don’t care what religion you are, you cannot say ‘I accept certain things but I reject others.’ That’s not the right behaviour.

I have always worked hard to deserve what I have.

You know when you go to a club and you are a striker, that the people expect you to score some goals. That’s what I’m trying to do, every game.

Sometimes I just like to be powerful.

If I play well, I’ll deserve to play. If I don’t perform, it will be my fault.

You know, I love football and I like to represent my country.

As long as I’m having fun, I’m happy.

We all have different causes that touch us emotionally and I believe anybody should fight for a cause they believe in. I’m a Muslim, I’m African, so certain causes will affect me more than they do other people.

When you retire, no-one remembers that you finished in the top four. They remember you won a trophy.

For me, I am always hoping to play for the national team.

When I played in Belgium, Germany and England, their cultures were similar, more or less, because these clubs are all in Europe.

Everywhere you go, competition is there. It will always exist.

It doesn’t matter what you have, as long as you’re happy with the people you are with.

When you work, you always get to where you want to go.

Even if Sadio comes and tells me that he’s better than Messi, I’d slap him in his face and tell him ‘shut up boy, sit down!’ But in 2019, in my perspective, he had a better season.

He always told me I’d score goals; Alan Pardew gives me a lot of confidence.

If I enjoy myself on the pitch, then I’m going to have a good performance.

I know what I’m able to do and I’ve proved it at every club I’ve played for.

I am from the bottom, so if I go back to the bottom I haven’t lost anything.

I’m not a Liverpool supporter.

The first image I have of club owners is that the club is one of their toys and they do what they want and they lose a lot of money and they just don’t care about who’s working in it.

One thing I will keep doing for sure is fighting for everybody’s rights behind the scenes.

I played in Belgium, in France and in Germany, which was very good – but England is very special.

My behaviour in the past wasn’t too bad. But let’s say it was not in keeping with the Islamic faith’s demands. Nightclubs, for example. People tell me it’s not a big deal if I go to them – but I don’t do it any more.

It’s rare to see Mourinho manage three years at the same team.