Quotes from Kelechi Iheanacho

Players need to be strong when they have injuries.

I will try to do my best in training and in games if I'm introduced.

It's good when as a young player you're introduced to a top team like Manchester City and you need to do well.

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

My father was a trader and my mum was a teacher but she was laid to rest when I was 14, which was really hard for all of us.

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.

I support Barcelona because I watched the Spanish league.

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.

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

Wilf is a great passer of the ball. I know him and I played with him from the Under-17s team with Nigeria, so he's a very good passer.

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.

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

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 is ironic my father is now my biggest fan. I got beat up by him whenever I stepped out to play football! I was always on the receiving end of my father's belt or whatever else he could find. Sometimes I laugh, but I guess it's been written by God that my life would take such a route. He was only looking out for me.

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

When I was growing up they didn't want me to do it because my mother was a teacher - they wanted me to go to school. But I love football and wanted to play - they wanted to stop me but couldn't. They wouldn't allow me to play out after school but I went out anyway. Maybe I lost a bit of focus on my studies.

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.

Everything I do, I do for my mum and my family - that's what drives me.

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.

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.

I loved playing football with my brothers. I would go to school as well, but I loved football, so I played it a lot when I was a kid.