Top 50 Kelechi Iheanacho Quotes

Players need to be strong when they have injuries.

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.

I think nothing is enough in football.

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

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

No one wants to sit on the bench.

Nigeria has a lot of Man City fans, and they’re going to have more every time I go home.

Whenever I go back home to Nigeria now, I always bring a bag full of Manchester City shirts for the kids.

I love a challenge so when people compare me and Rashford, it gives me more confidence and motivation. It also makes me work even harder.

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.

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

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

I just have to keep my confidence and be strong.

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

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 can play in any position.

I loved football when I was small.

I don’t know why, but football is my passion.

Work for the team, work hard and when the ball falls to you you have to put it in.

They give us courage, but you can’t play for the gallery, you have to play for your team-mates.

When you are not playing, you need to train harder. You need to keep faith. And when you come into the team, you have to do exactly what your team-mates are doing to help the team achieve something.

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.

I know that as a young player I need to work hard for the team, work extra in training and in the game as well so that they will see that you need more games and you need to play.

I think every year that comes, comes with different games, different kinds of players, different coaches and different philosophies, I know that.

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

If your country wants you to play, you really want to go and play as well.

That is a football game, you don’t know what is going to happen when you play.

European football is the same as any other football.

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

I would have gone anywhere for football.

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 good to be involved as well as everyone to be involved in everything to help your team work hard when you work hard you get a good result.

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

I’m happy and I’m confident, even if I don’t score.

Anywhere I can fit in, I will play.

When the ball falls to you, you have to put it in.

I work on my finishing every day in training.

You need to press high, help your teammates by getting back – and, of course, score goals.

We didn’t have a television at home. Even the people who did have televisions wouldn’t have the right channels to show the games. So if you wanted to watch football you had to pay to watch the games at the local sports centre. You would get hundreds of people paying to watch, all at the same place.

It’s football – anything can happen.

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

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

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

If I’m in a good position to score then I’m happy to put the ball in the back of the net, but if I’m not, and I see someone in a better position, I’ll give it to him.

Everything I do, I do for my mum and my family – that’s what drives me.

It’s always a good feeling to get a goal in the team.

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

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

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.

I will help the team anyway I can.