Quotes from Kelechi Iheanacho

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

It's just what I need to do as a football player, to come in and bring life whenever I'm starting, whenever I'm coming in.

We are footballers, we can make mistakes and we can lose games.

I can play as a striker or I can play as a No 10. I can even play on the wing as well.

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

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

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

Guardiola is a good manager, everyone knows that.

It is always good to be involved in a good sport, a great team.

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

It was hard when my mother left us. I said to myself: 'You must keep working hard for her.' She was a teacher, a big influence. She made me work harder. So when I'm not doing something right or when I'm not playing or working hard enough, I remember what she used to say to me. She gets me moving. She pushed me to work hard.

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.

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

My mother loved her children, and she had always pushed me to keep working hard, even when it was football and not books.

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 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'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.

When I played for the Under-13s, then Nigerian Football Federation president Sani Lulu said we would be playing at the 2018 World Cup.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I was close to signing for FC Porto where I really wanted to go.